# Logs sending to logstash not showing in any index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-sending-to-logstash-not-showing-in-any-index/165556>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [January 24, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-sending-to-logstash-not-showing-in-any-index/165556 "2019-01-24T08:42:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![nitinamrutkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@nitinamrutkar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nitinamrutkar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-sending-to-logstash-not-showing-in-any-index/165556/1 "2019-01-24T08:42:52Z")

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Hi Team ,

I am sending my application logs from windows VM using filebeat to logstash and then to elastic search. We are using custom logstash config and I am trying to send my filebeat logs in category server logs but when I checked the indices it doesn't show me any category in which the logs are sent.

Can you please help me to understand in which category the logs are sending.

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**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-sending-to-logstash-not-showing-in-any-index/165556/2 "2019-01-24T09:50:18Z")

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Hello @nitinamrutkar,

Please check the registry file in filebeat if its generating offset value than surely their is problem with the logstash config file.

Regards  
Shrikant

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**Author:** ![nitinamrutkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@nitinamrutkar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nitinamrutkar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-sending-to-logstash-not-showing-in-any-index/165556/3 "2019-01-24T10:28:07Z")

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@shrikantgulia,

Thanks for your reply. I checked the registry file and it generates offset value and logstash config generated index for other linux machine. Is there any additional settings need to be done in filebeat.yml for my windows vm to define index and category to which it has to send the logs?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/9/b9c3da05d4269b63a4b910e8a4fc54205b0a9a2a.png)

here is my filebeat config.

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**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-sending-to-logstash-not-showing-in-any-index/165556/4 "2019-01-24T10:33:17Z")

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@nitinamrutkar,  
its like you want to provide them a document\_type if you want to provide them a id than it can be done in filebeat also  
for eg i wanted to provide a service id to the logs  
so i added

fields:  
service\_id: Gd5EWmgBY7Thni\_1Uvnm

in filebeat but this would create a field in every log

But if you want a particular type than it can be document\_type in output of logstash

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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:** [February 21, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-sending-to-logstash-not-showing-in-any-index/165556/5 "2019-02-21T10:33:18Z")

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