# Logstash 5.0.0-alpha5: kafka not found

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 12, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950 "2016-08-12T18:10:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![kaem2111](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaem2111/32/24961_2.png) [@kaem2111](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kaem2111)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950/1 "2016-08-12T18:10:02Z")

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Hello,

after upgrading 5.0.0-alpha4 to 5 using logstash-rpm I get the error:

```
  /usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --path.settings=/etc/logstash -t --log.level debug -e 'output { kafka { topic_id => "logstash" }}'

--- jar coordinate com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations already loaded with version 2.7.1 - omit version 2.7.0
--- jar coordinate com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind already loaded with version 2.7.1 - omit version 2.7.1-1
Sending logstash logs to /var/log/logstash/logstash.log.

The given configuration is invalid. Reason: Couldn't find any output plugin named 'kafka'. Are you sure this is correct? Trying to load the kafka output plugin resulted in this error: Problems loading the requested plugin named kafka of type output. {:level=>:fatal, :file=>"logstash/runner.rb", :line=>"216", :method=>"execute"}

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The same error occurs for logstash-input-kafka

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**Author:** ![da\_Teng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@da\_Teng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/da_Teng)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950/2 "2016-08-15T04:01:01Z")

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you need use :  
`bin/plugin install --version 5.0.0 logstash-input-kafka`  
`bin/plugin install --version 5.0.0 logstash-output-kafka`

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**Author:** ![kaem2111](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaem2111/32/24961_2.png) [@kaem2111](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kaem2111)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950/3 "2016-08-18T15:38:58Z")

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Kafka is an elastic plugin and should work out of the box.  
Tried several install/remove/diff but did not succeed.  
Downgraded to alpha4, now its working again.  
Wait for beta1.

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**Author:** ![Felipe\_Santos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felipe_santos/32/3511_2.png) [@Felipe\_Santos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Felipe_Santos)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950/4 "2016-08-18T20:45:17Z")

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Same here

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**Author:** ![luizsignorelli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luizsignorelli/32/11480_2.png) [@luizsignorelli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luizsignorelli)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950/5 "2016-08-19T14:37:00Z")

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I'm having this problem too

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Lawson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_lawson/32/3390_2.png) [@Joe\_Lawson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Lawson)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950/6 "2016-08-22T14:54:10Z")

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Try version 5.0.4 [https://rubygems.org/gems/logstash-input-kafka](https://rubygems.org/gems/logstash-input-kafka)

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**Author:** ![mguggi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mguggi/32/79070_2.png) [@mguggi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mguggi)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950/7 "2016-09-07T10:01:18Z")

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I've the same issue. See [https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/5777](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/5777) for the workaround.

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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, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0-alpha5-kafka-not-found/57950/8 "2017-07-06T04:39:32Z")

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