# How to send data to elasticsearch using logstash?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-data-to-elasticsearch-using-logstash/71193
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 11, 2017, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-data-to-elasticsearch-using-logstash/71193 "2017-01-11T08:59:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Yaswanth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yaswanth)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2017, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-data-to-elasticsearch-using-logstash/71193/1 "2017-01-11T08:59:32Z")
HI ,
I want to send a txt.file which contains some documents into elasticsearch using logstash .
So, how can i configure my .config file in such a way that it sends the data to elasticsearch..
Thanks
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2017, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-data-to-elasticsearch-using-logstash/71193/2 "2017-01-11T09:27:16Z")
Use the file input and the ES output.
It'll also depend on if you want to do any transformation too though/
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### Author:  [@Yaswanth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yaswanth)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-data-to-elasticsearch-using-logstash/71193/3 "2017-01-11T09:34:27Z")
Hi,
I tried the following .conf code
input {
file {
path =\> "C:\Users\Desktop\mediacontent-jan-2017\0-1000.txt"
start\_position =\> "beginning"
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts =\> "[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"
index =\> "receive"
}
}
I already created a index name "receive" in my cluster and i want to send the data in 0-1000.txt to "receive" index .
when i used the code in the cmd prompt it is showing error like
Error: [400] {"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"parse\_exception","reason":"Failed to deri
ve xcontent"}],"type":"search\_phase\_execution\_exception","reason":"all shards failed","ph
ase":"query","grouped":true,"failed\_shards":[{"shard":0,"index":"mediacontent-jan-2017","
node":"BKnWYe4zSxubdFOUgGEGWg","reason":{"type":"parse\_exception","reason":"Failed to der
ive xcontent"}}]},"status":400}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-data-to-elasticsearch-using-logstash/71193/4 "2017-02-08T09:34:58Z")
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