# HTTP Output Failure - Unable to send logstash output to elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-output-failure-unable-to-send-logstash-output-to-elasticsearch/189974
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-output-failure-unable-to-send-logstash-output-to-elasticsearch/189974 "2019-07-11T10:34:48Z")
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### Author:  [@Vivek\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vivek_Sharma)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-output-failure-unable-to-send-logstash-output-to-elasticsearch/189974/1 "2019-07-11T10:34:49Z")
Hi
I am trying to parse a text file containing 3 fields and storing the result in elasticsearch using http.
Below is the code I have created for this.
```
input {
beats {
port => 5044
}
}
filter {
dissect {
mapping => {
message => "%{empid}##%{empname}##%{hrsworked}" }
}
}
output {
http {
url => "http://localhost:9200/pocind-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}/_doc/%{empid}/_update?retry_on_conflict=5"
http_method => "post"
content_type => "application/json"
format => "message"
message => '{
"script" : {
"source": " ctx._source.SAGStatus.add(params.status)" ; ctx._source.SAGTimestampIn = params.timestamp",
"lang": "painless",
"params" : {
"status" : "Viveks",
}
},
"upsert" : {"Employee Id" : "%{empid}", "Employee Name" : "%{empname}","Hrs Worked" : "%{hrsworked}", "Emp Status" : ["status"]}
}'
}
}
```
But when I parse the logs, i get error as below:
`
`
> [2019-07-11T15:28:54,669][ERROR][logstash.outputs.http] [HTTP Output Failure] Encountered non-2xx HTTP code 400 {:response\_code=\>400, :url=\>"[http://localhost:9200/pocind-2019.07.11/\_doc/305611/\_update?retry\_on\_conflict=5](http://localhost:9200/pocind-2019.07.11/_doc/305611/_update?retry_on_conflict=5)", :event=\>#LogStash::Event:0x257029}
`
Can anyone please help in on how to get this issue resolved.
Thanks
Vivek Sharma
`
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-output-failure-unable-to-send-logstash-output-to-elasticsearch/189974/2 "2019-07-11T13:13:30Z")
If elasticsearch is returning an error there is probably a more informative message in the elasticsearch logs.
Can I ask why you are trying to write to elasticsearch using an http output rather than an elasticsearch output?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-output-failure-unable-to-send-logstash-output-to-elasticsearch/189974/3 "2019-08-08T13:13:41Z")
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