# Logstash errors out-Couldn't find any input plugin named 'beats'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-out-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-beats/70987>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-out-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-beats/70987 "2017-01-09T19:23:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![dubul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@dubul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dubul)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-out-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-beats/70987/1 "2017-01-09T19:23:09Z")

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here is the logstash conf file

```
input {

beats {
    port => 5044
  }
}
filter {
		csv {
			columns => [
		"date", "time", "s-sitename", "s-ip", "cs-method", "cs-uri-stem", "cs-uri-query", "s-port", "cs-username", "c-ip", "cs-user-agent", "sc-status", "sc-substatus", "sc-win32-status"
			]
			separator => " "
		 }
  
mutate {
    add_field => { "logdate" => "%{date} %{time}" }
}

date {
    match => ["logdate", "YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"]
  }

		
}
output {
#	stdout { codec => rubydebug }
	elasticsearch {
		"hosts" => "localhost:9200"
		"index" => "logs-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}"
		"document_type" => "iis_logs"
	}
}
```

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**Author:** ![dubul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@dubul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dubul)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-out-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-beats/70987/2 "2017-01-09T19:28:09Z")

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@magnusbaeck Any help on why this erroring out.

```
io/console not supported; tty will not be manipulated
←[31mfetched an invalid config {:config=>"input {\n\nbeats {\n port => 5044\n }\n}\nfilter {\n\t\tcsv {\n\t\t\tcolumns => [\n\t\t\"date\", \"time\
", \"s-sitename\", \"s-ip\", \"cs-method\", \"cs-uri-stem\", \"cs-uri-query\", \"s-port\", \"cs-username\", \"c-ip\", \"cs-user-agent\", \"sc-status\"
, \"sc-substatus\", \"sc-win32-status\"\n\t\t\t]\n\t\t\tseparator => \" \"\n\t\t }\n \nmutate {\n add_field => { \"logdate\" => \"%{date} %{time}\
" }\n}\n\ndate {\n match => [\"logdate\", \"YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss\"]\n }\n\n\t\t\n}\noutput {\n#\tstdout { codec => rubydebug }\n\telasticsearch {\
n\t\t\"hosts\" => \"sc1elk01d00:9200\"\n\t\t\"index\" => \"dev-intranet-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}\"\n\t\t\"document_type\" => \"iis_logs\"\n\t}\n}\n\n", :reason=
>"Couldn't find any input plugin named 'beats'. Are you sure this is correct? Trying to load the beats input plugin resulted in this error: no such fi
le to load -- logstash/inputs/beats", :level=>:error}←[0m
The signal HUP is in use by the JVM and will not work correctly on this platform
```

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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 6, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-out-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-beats/70987/3 "2017-02-06T19:28:09Z")

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