# Getting error when bulk json files trasfer from logstash to ELK

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-bulk-json-files-trasfer-from-logstash-to-elk/206409>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 4, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-bulk-json-files-trasfer-from-logstash-to-elk/206409 "2019-11-04T13:13:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![namali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@namali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/namali)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-bulk-json-files-trasfer-from-logstash-to-elk/206409/1 "2019-11-04T13:13:50Z")

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transferring more than 12000 same structured json files to ELK once. when I run logstash config file getting following error.

[2019-11-04T17:47:36,249][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.InternalError: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0\_131/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar (Too many open files)

input {  
file {  
path =\> "/home/namalie/elk/activity/tourmega/convertedjson/TourMega\_tourDetail\_\*.json"  
start\_position =\>"beginning"  
type =\>"json"   
sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null"  
}  
}

how to over come from this error

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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:** [December 2, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-bulk-json-files-trasfer-from-logstash-to-elk/206409/2 "2019-12-02T13:13:52Z")

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