# Input plugin - type not getting picked up?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-type-not-getting-picked-up/52156>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 8, 2016, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-type-not-getting-picked-up/52156 "2016-06-08T06:34:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jamesl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jamesl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamesl)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-type-not-getting-picked-up/52156/1 "2016-06-08T06:34:48Z")

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Hi.  
Have installed filebeat on a Windows box to collect and forward logs to ELK.  
On the logstash input file i have setup a seperate beats section so i can define a different type compared to my other inputs, refer winlogbeat-log01 below:  
input file extract:  
beats {  
port =\> 5044  
type =\> "beats-log01"  
}  
beats {  
port =\> 5045  
type =\> "winfilebeat-log01"  
}

output file extract:  
} else if [type] == "beats-log01" {  
elasticsearch {  
hosts =\> ["els02:9200","els03:9200"]  
sniffing =\> true  
manage\_template =\> false  
index =\> "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"  
document\_type =\> "%{[@metadata][type]}"  
}  
} else if [type] == "winfilebeat-log01" {  
elasticsearch {  
hosts =\> ["els02:9200","els03:9200"]  
sniffing =\> true  
manage\_template =\> false  
index =\> "winfilebeat-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"  
document\_type =\> "winfilebeat-log01"  
}

My Kibana output is not picking up this new file 'type' and in my ES I am not getting a new index created (see pic).

Any pointers?

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/4/44768201225727c4bd3ec9149ffe60e09205ed16.jpg)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-type-not-getting-picked-up/52156/2 "2016-06-09T00:24:24Z")

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Your config looks ok, but it doesn't look like the type is in the doc at all. What if you add a stdout to see what is happening.

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**Author:** ![jamesl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jamesl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamesl)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-type-not-getting-picked-up/52156/3 "2016-06-10T01:38:32Z")

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Hi, tried that but nothing is coming up in either /var/log/syslog or /var/log/logstash/logstash.log  
Tried both stdout { codec =\> json } and stdout { codec =\> rubydebug }

} else if [type] == "winfilebeat-log01" {  
elasticsearch {  
hosts =\> ["els02:9200",":9200"]  
stdout { codec =\> json }  
sniffing =\> true  
manage\_template =\> false  
index =\> "winfilebeat-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"  
document\_type =\> "winfilebeat-log01"  
}

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-type-not-getting-picked-up/52156/4 "2017-07-06T04:53:50Z")

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