# Input File Path (not working) vs Input Beats (working) all conf setting are the same but Input

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-path-not-working-vs-input-beats-working-all-conf-setting-are-the-same-but-input/164800
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 18, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-path-not-working-vs-input-beats-working-all-conf-setting-are-the-same-but-input/164800 "2019-01-18T13:21:18Z")
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### Author: ![Datakids](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/datakids/32/39622_2.png) [@Datakids](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Datakids)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-path-not-working-vs-input-beats-working-all-conf-setting-are-the-same-but-input/164800/6 "2019-01-18T21:38:45Z")

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Finaly made it!

I add thus to Input:

> codec =\> plain {  
> charset =\> "ISO-8859-1"  
> }

And used this commandline toi start for debug:

`logstash --log.level debug -f aTestfile_path_3cols.conf`

and found that entry in logstash logs:

> [2019-01-18T22:18:09,404][DEBUG][logstash.instrument.periodicpoller.cgroup] One or more required cgroup files or directories not found: /proc/self/cgroup, /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct, /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu

Search the Forum and find this:

> [@Logstash Successfully started but not index in created in Elastic Search](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-successfully-started-but-not-index-in-created-in-elastic-search/151347/8):
>
> Hello, As observed from your input code, cahnge the path as shown below path =\> "E:/Documentos/Faculdade/TCC/data/mapas.csv" since db path to sincedb\_path =\> "NUL", hope this works

Yeah made my day when changed from \ to / in path!

Lesson learned ELK Stack is quite a bit hypersensitive based on whatever matter because in Filebeat I can still use \ instead of / ?  
...time for beer... 🙂

Regards

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