# How to add a plugin to ELK in a docker-compose file?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-plugin-to-elk-in-a-docker-compose-file/246091
**Category:** Logstash
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [August 24, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-plugin-to-elk-in-a-docker-compose-file/246091 "2020-08-24T10:17:16Z")
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### Author:  [@nb03briceno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nb03briceno)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-plugin-to-elk-in-a-docker-compose-file/246091/1 "2020-08-24T10:17:16Z")
Hello everyone, i have an important question.
If I would like to add a logstash plugin to my docker-compose file, how I could do it?
This is the section of logstash I have in my docker-compose (it's not working because the pipeline I'm running needs the plugin "date\_formatter") :
#Logstash container
logstash:
container\_name: logstash
hostname: logstash
image: "[docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:${ELASTIC\_VERSION}](http://docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:%24%7BELASTIC_VERSION%7D)"
volumes:
- ./config/logstash/logstash.yml:/usr/share/logstash/config/logstash.yml:ro
- ./config/logstash/pipeline:/usr/share/logstash/pipeline/
- ./.kitchen/logs:/logs
command: /usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash/logstash-plugin install logstash-filter-date\_formatter
#Port 5044 accessible on the host
ports: ['5044:5044']
networks: ['stack']
depends\_on:
elasticsearch: { condition: service\_healthy }
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "[http://localhost:9600](http://localhost:9600)"]
retries: 10
interval: 10s
Would you mind giving me some advice?
Thanks so much,
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-plugin-to-elk-in-a-docker-compose-file/246091/2 "2020-09-21T10:17:18Z")
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