# Index is not creating?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-is-not-creating/159363>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 4, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-is-not-creating/159363 "2018-12-04T13:35:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![inandi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/inandi/32/40801_2.png) [@inandi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/inandi)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-is-not-creating/159363/1 "2018-12-04T13:35:39Z")

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```
WARNING: Could not find logstash.yml which is typically located in $LS_HOME/config or /etc/logstash. You can specify the path using --path.settings. Continuing using the defaults
Could not find log4j2 configuration at path /usr/share/logstash/config/log4j2.properties. Using default config which logs errors to the console
[WARN] 2018-12-04 19:02:12.420 [LogStash::Runner] multilocal - Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:12.434 [LogStash::Runner] runner - Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"6.5.1"}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:14.849 [Converge PipelineAction::Create<main>] pipeline - Starting pipeline {:pipeline_id=>"main", "pipeline.workers"=>8, "pipeline.batch.size"=>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>50}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:15.363 [[main]-pipeline-manager] elasticsearch - Elasticsearch pool URLs updated {:changes=>{:removed=>[], :added=>[http://localhost:9200/]}}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:15.376 [[main]-pipeline-manager] elasticsearch - Running health check to see if an Elasticsearch connection is working {:healthcheck_url=>http://localhost:9200/, :path=>"/"}
[WARN] 2018-12-04 19:02:15.633 [[main]-pipeline-manager] elasticsearch - Restored connection to ES instance {:url=>"http://localhost:9200/"}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:15.889 [[main]-pipeline-manager] elasticsearch - ES Output version determined {:es_version=>6}
[WARN] 2018-12-04 19:02:15.894 [[main]-pipeline-manager] elasticsearch - Detected a 6.x and above cluster: the `type` event field won't be used to determine the document _type {:es_version=>6}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:15.933 [[main]-pipeline-manager] elasticsearch - New Elasticsearch output {:class=>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch", :hosts=>["http://localhost:9200/"]}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:15.960 [Ruby-0-Thread-5: :1] elasticsearch - Using mapping template from {:path=>nil}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:15.988 [Ruby-0-Thread-5: :1] elasticsearch - Attempting to install template {:manage_template=>{"template"=>"logstash-*", "version"=>60001, "settings"=>{"index.refresh_interval"=>"5s"}, "mappings"=>{"_default_"=>{"dynamic_templates"=>[{"message_field"=>{"path_match"=>"message", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false}}}, {"string_fields"=>{"match"=>"*", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false, "fields"=>{"keyword"=>{"type"=>"keyword", "ignore_above"=>256}}}}}], "properties"=>{"@timestamp"=>{"type"=>"date"}, "@version"=>{"type"=>"keyword"}, "geoip"=>{"dynamic"=>true, "properties"=>{"ip"=>{"type"=>"ip"}, "location"=>{"type"=>"geo_point"}, "latitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}, "longitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}}}}}}}}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:16.289 [Converge PipelineAction::Create<main>] pipeline - Pipeline started successfully {:pipeline_id=>"main", :thread=>"#<Thread:0x4b263cfb run>"}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:16.377 [Ruby-0-Thread-1: /usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb:6] agent - Pipelines running {:count=>1, :running_pipelines=>[:main], :non_running_pipelines=>[]}
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:16.398 [[main]<file] observingtail - START, creating Discoverer, Watch with file and sincedb collections
[INFO] 2018-12-04 19:02:16.887 [Api Webserver] agent - Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9601}

```

logstash conf file

```
  input {
    file {
      path => "/home/skills34/es/templetes/test1.txt"
      start_position => "beginning"
      sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
      codec => "json"        
    }
  }
  filter { }
  output { 
    elasticsearch {
      hosts => ["http://localhost:9200/"]  
      index => "tg_2" 
    }
  }

```

test1.txt file

`{"reviewId":"gobinds"}`

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**Author:** ![inandi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/inandi/32/40801_2.png) [@inandi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/inandi)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-is-not-creating/159363/2 "2018-12-04T13:54:44Z")

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i just duplicated the json file(test1.txt to test2.txt) and it stared working again . what should be the issue ???

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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:** [January 1, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-is-not-creating/159363/3 "2019-01-01T13:54:46Z")

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