hey there, hope you can help me :slight_smile: I started my ELK setup with docker-compose a few days ago. It looked fine as all 3 containers where running without any data. Today i wanted to import some xml files with logstash and xpath, but it already errors when he wants an absolute path. My pat…

Nevermind, i switched - .\logstash:/usr/share/logstash/pipeline/ to C:/Users/username/Desktop/DockerComposeFile/data/, and at least the Error message is not showing anymore, and the container is running. I think there is still a problem because the index isn't showing up in kibana, but i think i ca…

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File paths must be absolute, relative path specified

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stephenb (Stephen Brown) January 3, 2021, 4:16pm 6

You do need to use forward slashes, I know you tried but that is the proper syntax.

and technically I think it is sincedb_path => "NUL"

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