# Fluentd to External ELK stack

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fluentd-to-external-elk-stack/241880
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 20, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fluentd-to-external-elk-stack/241880 "2020-07-20T10:38:51Z")
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### Author: ![Lilth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lilth/32/46835_2.png) [@Lilth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lilth)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fluentd-to-external-elk-stack/241880/1 "2020-07-20T10:38:51Z")

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Hello,

I have a problem with Logstash.

FluentD is sending logs to external ELK stack.

Whichever option I have tried logstash is not creating index in ES.

Config:

input {  
tcp {  
port =\>  
codec =\> fluent  
}  
}  
output {  
elasticsearch {  
hosts =\> ["[http://xx.xx.xx.xx](http://xx.xx.xx.xx):port"]  
index =\> "logstash-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"  
}  
}

Any idea what is missing?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fluentd-to-external-elk-stack/241880/2 "2020-07-20T23:58:35Z")

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What do the Logstash logs show?

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fluentd-to-external-elk-stack/241880/3 "2020-08-17T23:58:36Z")

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