# Is it mandatory to specify elasticsearch port in logstash output plugin?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-mandatory-to-specify-elasticsearch-port-in-logstash-output-plugin/64703>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 2, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-mandatory-to-specify-elasticsearch-port-in-logstash-output-plugin/64703 "2016-11-02T11:33:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![elasticheart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticheart/32/65189_2.png) [@elasticheart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticheart)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-mandatory-to-specify-elasticsearch-port-in-logstash-output-plugin/64703/1 "2016-11-02T11:33:27Z")

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Hi,

I have setup logstash for fetching files from 2 separate input sources and these are output to two elasticsearch indexes. For one output, I have set;

```
hosts => ["192.168.1.1:9200"]

```

and for other, I have set just

```
hosts => ["192.168.1.1"]

```

Both of them are working fine. I run a cluster with 3 master eligible nodes (different ports in single ip / machine). Is it mandatory to specify port?

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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:** [November 2, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-mandatory-to-specify-elasticsearch-port-in-logstash-output-plugin/64703/2 "2016-11-02T12:07:52Z")

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Moved to #logstash

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-mandatory-to-specify-elasticsearch-port-in-logstash-output-plugin/64703/3 "2016-11-03T04:46:07Z")

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> Is it mandatory to specify port?

The port defaults to 9200 so you only need to list the port if it's different than that.

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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, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-mandatory-to-specify-elasticsearch-port-in-logstash-output-plugin/64703/4 "2017-07-06T04:31:26Z")

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