Logstash Jdbc input not updating last run

[karthik_s1 (Karthik S)]

@guyboertje thanks for the explanation, i shall try this out. As of now, i am stuck with another issue with logstash which is blocking progress in this.

Json_parse_exception

I am getting the following json_parse_exception while doing a bulk request from logstash to elasticsearch. _[ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Encountered a retryable error. Will Retry with exponential backoff {:code=>500, :url=>"http://vpc-esalerts-43wktnne2aghqck7orxqw4zdmq.ap-southeast-1.es.amazonaws.com:80/bulk", :body=>"{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"json_parse_exception","reason":"Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 31)): only regular white space (\\r, \\n, \\t) is allowed between…