# Logstash not pushing logs to kafka after it started

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-pushing-logs-to-kafka-after-it-started/248804>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 16, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-pushing-logs-to-kafka-after-it-started/248804 "2020-09-16T09:29:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![hariumesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@hariumesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hariumesh)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-pushing-logs-to-kafka-after-it-started/248804/1 "2020-09-16T09:29:37Z")

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Hi All,  
I am new to logstash and iam trying to building a pipeline to push logs from a logdirectory to the kafka topic  
so i have below config file

```auto
input {
   file {
    path => "/home/ubuntu/log_dir/log_json.json"
    start_position => "beginning"
    codec => "json"
  }
}
filter {
    json {
        source => message
    }
}
output {
  kafka {
    bootstrap_servers => "localhost:9092"
    codec => plain {
        format => "%{message}"
    }
    topic_id => "my_topic"
  }
}

```

After i launched the kafka server , i started the logstash service with below command

bin/logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash/ -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/json\_log.conf --config.reload.automatic

And i found the service started and stopping with  
"Successfully started logstash API endpoint{:port=9600}"

further i am not seeing the logs being parsed to the kafka topic

Appreciated if anyone can help on this?

Thanks

 ![issue](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/a/2a8b3dbf67b36657f5a6abac77e1b9a7b6850586.jpeg)

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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:** [October 14, 2020, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-pushing-logs-to-kafka-after-it-started/248804/2 "2020-10-14T09:29:45Z")

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