# Getting error while installing ELK

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-elk/206327>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 4, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-elk/206327 "2019-11-04T05:23:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Shradha\_Bharti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shradha_bharti/32/45398_2.png) [@Shradha\_Bharti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shradha_Bharti)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-elk/206327/1 "2019-11-04T05:23:01Z")

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HI  
I am upgrading the elk version of my server ..previosuly it was 2.4.6 now ,we are doing 7.3.0  
while installing all the rpms ,m getting below error in logstash  
[2019-11-04T00:00:16,098][ERROR][logstash.plugins.registry] Tried to load a plugin's code, but failed. {:exception=\>#\<LoadError: no such file to load -- logstash/outputs/exec\>, :path=\>"logstash/outputs/exec", :type=\>"output", :name=\>"exec"}  
[2019-11-04T00:00:16,113][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:action=\>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline\_id:main, :exception=\>"LogStash::PluginLoadingError", :message=\>"Couldn't find any output plugin named 'exec'. Are you sure this is correct? Trying to load the exec output plugin resulted in this error: no such file to load -- logstash/outputs/exec", :backtrace=\>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/plugins/registry.rb:221:in `lookup_pipeline_plugin'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/plugin.rb:143:in `lookup'", "org/logstash/plugins/PluginFactoryExt.java:203:in `plugin'", "org/logstash/plugins/PluginFactoryExt.java:140:in `buildOutput'", "org/logstash/execution/JavaBasePipelineExt.java:50:in `initialize'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/java_pipeline.rb:24:in `initialize'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline\_action/create.rb:36:in `execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:325:in `block in converge\_state'"]}

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-elk/206327/2 "2019-11-04T13:30:21Z")

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The exec output is not installed by default. The [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-exec.html#_installation_25) explains how to install it.

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**Author:** ![Shradha\_Bharti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shradha_bharti/32/45398_2.png) [@Shradha\_Bharti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shradha_Bharti)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-elk/206327/3 "2019-11-07T10:37:23Z")

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Thanks 🙂

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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 5, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-while-installing-elk/206327/4 "2019-12-05T10:37:25Z")

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