# Index not creating

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-creating/282345>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-creating/282345 "2021-08-24T12:29:46Z")\
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1. Verify file path and file contents.
2. Verify you can do a straight input to stdout or file output with no filters.

What I am reading is you are failing step #2. If that's the case then this is probably a docker question which I can't answer. Maybe something to do with mounting or volumes. But you said you are doing something similar already so I don't think you would miss that part.

Below is what I would use to test.

```auto
input {
  file {
    path => "/path/*.json"
    start_position => "beginning"
    sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
  }
}
output { 
 stdout {}
}

```

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