# Logstash Codec and other

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-codec-and-other/157298>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 19, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-codec-and-other/157298 "2018-11-19T08:40:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Magalhaes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carlos_magalhaes/32/74604_2.png) [@Carlos\_Magalhaes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Carlos_Magalhaes)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-codec-and-other/157298/1 "2018-11-19T08:40:23Z")

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Hi there,

Just upgraded to 6.5.0 - what was upgraded -\> ELK  
I was checking the bin/logstash-plugin list and noticed some missing plugins which I use:

1. Sflow
2. Multiline

Did these get removed in 6.5.0 or did they get renamed to something else.  
Checking my logs for logstash I noticed it is throwing an error for the Multiline plugin and my Sflow dashboards etc have no info so I thought I would check the plugins and see them missing?

Would appreciate the guidance.

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Magalhaes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carlos_magalhaes/32/74604_2.png) [@Carlos\_Magalhaes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Carlos_Magalhaes)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-codec-and-other/157298/2 "2018-11-19T12:30:05Z")

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Update - seems like I had to reinstall logstash-codec-sflow.  
Also had to reinstall logstash-codec-multiline.

Now sflow works -  
Tried a reboot of the server as for some reason logstash even after a systemctl restart logstash wasnt loading the plugins:

Logs still show

```
[2018-11-19T14:27:37,672][ERROR][logstash.plugins.registry] Tried to load a plugin's code, but failed. 
{:exception=>#<LoadError: no such file to load -- logstash/filters/multiline>, 
:path=>"logstash/filters/multiline", :type=>"filter", :name=>"multiline"}
 [2018-11-19T14:27:37,674][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action 
{:action=>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline_id:main, 
:exception=>"LogStash::PluginLoadingError", :message=>"Couldn't find any filter plugin named 
'multiline'. Are you sure this is correct? Trying to load the multiline filter plugin resulted in this error: 
 no 
such file to load -- logstash/filters/multiline", :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash- 
core/lib/logstash/plugins/registry.rb:211:in `lookup_pipeline_plugin'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash- 
core/lib/logstash/plugin.rb:137:in `lookup'", "org/logstash/plugins/PluginFactoryExt.java:210:in 
`plugin'", 
 "org/logstash/plugins/PluginFactoryExt.java:166:in `plugin'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash- 
  core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:71:in `plugin'", "(eval):592:in `<eval>'", "org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:994:in 
  `eval'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:49:in `initialize'", 
"/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:90:in `initialize'", 
"/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline_action/create.rb:42:in `block in execute'", 
"/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:92:in `block in exclusive'", 
"org/jruby/ext/thread/Mutex.java:148:in `synchronize'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash- 
core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:92:in `exclusive'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash- 
core/lib/logstash/pipeline_action/create.rb:38:in `execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash- 
core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:317:in `block in converge_state'"]}

```

I am now trying a pluging remove and will try to reinstall it.

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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:** [December 17, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-codec-and-other/157298/3 "2018-12-17T12:31:45Z")

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