# Logstash elasticsearch output plugin hangs at health check

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-elasticsearch-output-plugin-hangs-at-health-check/77040>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-elasticsearch-output-plugin-hangs-at-health-check/77040 "2017-03-01T19:27:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![addyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@addyk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/addyk)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-elasticsearch-output-plugin-hangs-at-health-check/77040/2 "2017-03-20T17:20:56Z")

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Also want to point out that these two users are having similar issue (not being able to send data from logstash to elastic)

> [@Logstash not sending data to elastic from kafka](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-sending-data-to-elastic-from-kafka/78866):
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> Hi, im trying to add data in elastic with logstash and data is input from kafka this is the simple config im using on logstash server in conf file /etc/logstash/conf.d/1-config.conf input{ kafka{ bootstrap\_servers =\> "dummykafka:9092" topics =\> ["dummy.kafka.topic"] } } output{ elasticsearch{ index =\> "test.winlogbeat.eventlogs-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}" hosts =\> ["elasticdatanode:50000"] user =\> "AdminID" password =\> "dummypassword" } } i restart the logstash server with this command sud…

> [@I cant put logs in elasticsearch from logstash](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-put-logs-in-elasticsearch-from-logstash/79068):
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> Im using logstash 1.4.2 and ... slight_smile I have the next logstash.conf input { udp { port =\> 9991 codec =\> netflow { definitions =\> "/home/profucom/logstash-1.4.2/lib/logstash/codecs/netflow/netflow.yaml" versions =\> [5] } } } output { stdout { codec =\> rubydebug } elasticsearch { index =\> logstash-%{+YYYY.MM.dd} host =\> "localhost" } } When i run "./logstash -f logstash.conf works fine, i get all information from my 2 routers, but im not sure if index =\> logstash-%{+Y…

Edit: To clarify, I do not have the password error like that mentioned in [Pipeline aborted due to error in password field logstash](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pipeline-aborted-due-to-error-in-password-field-logstash/68975)

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