# Logstash output to webhdfs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-to-webhdfs/88715
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 8, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-to-webhdfs/88715 "2017-06-08T12:20:05Z")
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### Author:  [@ssasporta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ssasporta)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-to-webhdfs/88715/1 "2017-06-08T12:20:06Z")
Need to split the logstash output to hadoop, per minute.
My output looks like that:
```
webhdfs {
host => "127.0.0.1" # (required)
port => 50070 # (optional, default: 50070)
path => "/user/logstash/dt=%{+YYYY-MM-dd}/logstash-%{+HH:mm}.log" # (required)
user => "vphadoop" # (required)
codec => "json"
}
```
I am getting the following error:
`[2017-06-08T13:22:48,149][ERROR][logstash.outputs.webhdfs] Max write retries reached. Events will be discarded. Exception: {"RemoteException":{"exception":"InvalidPathException","javaClassName":"org.apache.hadoop.fs. **InvalidPathException**","message":"Invalid path name Invalid file name: /user/logstash/dt=2017-03-01/logstash-13:04.log"}}`
When looking on the hadoop hdfs I see:
root@vpelastic:[/var/log]$ hdfs dfs -ls /user
Found 2 items
drwxr-xr-x - vpwrk1 supergroup 0 2017-06-05 11:16 /user/db
drwxrwxrwx - vphadoop supergroup 0 2017-06-01 15:05 `/user/logstash`
I expect the logstash to create the rest of the directories.
Thanks
Sharon.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-to-webhdfs/88715/2 "2017-07-06T12:20:19Z")
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