# Logstash not sending data to elastic from kafka

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-sending-data-to-elastic-from-kafka/78866
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 16, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-sending-data-to-elastic-from-kafka/78866 "2017-03-16T13:09:54Z")
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### Author: ![Hussain\_Kothari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hussain_kothari/32/15739_2.png) [@Hussain\_Kothari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hussain_Kothari)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-sending-data-to-elastic-from-kafka/78866/3 "2017-03-16T15:47:22Z")

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Hey i found the Answer to this in another post

> [@Pipeline aborted due to error in password field logstash](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pipeline-aborted-due-to-error-in-password-field-logstash/68975/3):
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> Hi Nick, here is my config elasticsearch { hosts =\> ["[http://x.x.x.x:9200](http://x.x.x.x:9200)"] manage\_template =\> false template\_name =\> "network-\*" index =\> "network-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}" document\_type =\> "%{type}" document\_id =\> "%{fingerprint}" user =\> "xxxx" password =\> "xxxSys201^" }

the password needs to be encoded.

Thanks 🙂

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