# Ingest attachment Plugin exception :

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 15, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167 "2016-12-15T13:22:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author: ![Ajay1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Ajay1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ajay1)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167/1 "2016-12-15T13:22:10Z")

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I have installed Ingest attachment plugin to push the csv data to Kibana monitoring.  
However i got some errors while creating pipeline

PUT \_ingest/pipeline/attachment  
{  
"description": "Reports",  
"processors": [  
{  
"attachment": {  
"field": "data",  
"indexed\_chars": "-1"  
}  
}  
]  
}

> **"type": "parse\_exception",**  
> **"reason": "No processor type exists with name [attachment]"**

Can someone help on this topic, Thanks

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167/2 "2016-12-15T14:28:24Z")

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Did you restart all the nodes?

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167/4 "2016-12-15T15:55:34Z")

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What gives GET \_cat/plugins?v

What are the logs?

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167/5 "2016-12-15T15:56:33Z")

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BTW using this for a CSV file does not really make sense IMHO as you won't get structured data out of it.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167/8 "2016-12-16T10:14:30Z")

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I think you have 3 nodes.

You installed the attachment plugin on only one node.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167/11 "2016-12-21T10:59:55Z")

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Good point. The documentation is not clear enough.

By default all properties (content, title, name, author, keywords, date, content\_type, content\_length, language) are extracted. So don't specify `"properties"` field if you need that.

Otherwise write something like `"properties": ["content", "title"]`

I'm going to fix the documentation.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167/12 "2016-12-21T11:16:00Z")

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For the record, I opened this PR

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/22300>

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167/14 "2016-12-22T10:42:25Z")

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If you have an HTTP service which exposes your PDF binary docs somewhere, yes you can add a link to the document.  
Can't recall from the top of my head where exactly is the option but if you can't find it by yourself, you can ask on #kibana for help.

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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 19, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-attachment-plugin-exception/69167/15 "2017-01-19T10:42:26Z")

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