# Issue while starting logstash **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [February 7, 2019, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-while-starting-logstash/167401 "2019-02-07T09:11:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zaidw21](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zaidw21/32/40678_2.png) [@zaidw21](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zaidw21)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-while-starting-logstash/167401/1 "2019-02-07T09:11:41Z")
Hi I am new to the ELK framework. Recently started to setup Logstash to parse them and push to elasticsearch. But I am facing the following error everytime i try to run it with my conf file. Tried a lot of options discussed in other threads but didnt helped. **My conf file is** : input { file { path =\> ["‪C:/var/logs/Debug\_2019-02-06.00.log"] } } filter { grok{ patterns\_dir =\> ["C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/patterns"] match =\> ["message","%{CSTMDATE:loggedTime}%{SPACE}-%{SPACE}%{LOGLEVEL:logLevel}:%{GREEDYDATA:message}"] } date { match =\> ["loggedTime", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSS"] target =\> "loggedTime" } } output { elasticsearch { hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"] } } stdout { codec =\> rubydebug } **My Pattern file** : CSTMDATE (?\>\d\d){1,2}-(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:(?:0[1-9])|(?:[12][0-9])|(?:3[01])|[1-9]).(?:2[0123]|[01]?[0-9]):(?:[0-5][0-9]):(?:(?:[0-5]?[0-9]|60)(?:[:.,][0-9]+)?) **Sample log** I want to parse : 2019-02-05 02:00:00.0105 - INFO: Job Started Running for the date : 2/4/2019 2:00:00 AM **I always get the following error** : [2019-02-07T14:34:40,663][ERROR][logstash.pipeline] Error registering plugin {:pipeline\_id=\>"main", :plugin=\>"\["ΓǬC:/var/logs/Debug\_2019-02-06.00.log"], id=\>"9b3b03f402ec598b32c86c8faa6efe8ae3a857189526f4fa2bf780987029126d", enable\_metric=\>true, codec=\>\"plain\_121be750-5188-419b-8588-dfd96f60c629", enable\_metric=\>true, charset=\>"UTF-8"\>, stat\_interval=\>1.0, discover\_interval=\>15, sincedb\_write\_interval=\>15.0, start\_position=\>"end", delimiter=\>"\n", close\_older=\>3600.0, mode=\>"tail", file\_completed\_action=\>"delete", sincedb\_clean\_after=\>1209600.0, file\_chunk\_size=\>32768, file\_chunk\_count=\>140737488355327, file\_sort\_by=\>"last\_modified", file\_sort\_direction=\>"asc"\>", :error=\>"no implicit conversion from nil to integer", :thread=\>"#\"} [2019-02-07T14:34:40,740][ERROR][logstash.pipeline] Pipeline aborted due to error {:pipeline\_id=\>"main", :exception=\>#\, :backtrace=\>["org/jruby/RubyString.java:2995:in `[]'", "uri:classloader:/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/stdlib/pathname.rb:44:in`chop\_basename'", "uri:classloader:/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/stdlib/pathname.rb:240:in `relative?'", "C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-input-file-4.1.9/lib/logstash/inputs/file.rb:268:in`block in register'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in `each'", "C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-input-file-4.1.9/lib/logstash/inputs/file.rb:267:in`register'", "C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:242:in `register_plugin'", "C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:253:in`block in register\_plugins'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in `each'", "C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:253:in`register\_plugins'", "C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:396:in `start_inputs'", "C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:294:in`start\_workers'", "C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:200:in `run'", "C:/HOMEWARE/ELK/logstash-6.6.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:160:in`block in start'"], :thread=\>"#\"} [2019-02-07T14:34:40,767][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:id=\>:main, :action\_type=\>LogStash::ConvergeResult::FailedAction, :message=\>"Could not execute action: PipelineAction::Create, action\_result: false", :backtrace=\>nil} Please help me. ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-while-starting-logstash/167401/2 "2019-02-07T14:47:47Z")
> [@zaidw21](#): > > file { > path =\> ["‪C:/var/logs/Debug\_2019-02-06.00.log"] > } > > **I always get the following error** : > > [2019-02-07T14:34:40,663][ERROR][logstash.pipeline] Error registering plugin {:pipeline\_id=\>"main", :plugin=\>"\["ΓǬC:/var/logs/Debug\_2019-02-06.00.log"], The path in the log and the path in your configuration do not exactly match. If you are pointing -f to a directory then it will concatenate all the files in that directory into a single configuration. Is it possible you have a backup copy of your configuration in the same directory that has a different value for path? ---
**Author:** ![zaidw21](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zaidw21/32/40678_2.png) [@zaidw21](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zaidw21)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-while-starting-logstash/167401/3 "2019-02-07T17:22:23Z")
Thanks for the reply, I dont have any other conf file. I tried changing the path too and put it inside bin, ran it from there still with no luck. Just got stuck there. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-while-starting-logstash/167401/4 "2019-03-07T17:22:27Z")
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