Logstash: Translation missing

Elastic Stack Logstash
1

Hi,

I'm new to ELK and have recently got the ELK stack to work on an Amazon Web Services t2.medium instance.

My problem is that I can't get Logstash run my configuration file, which is throwing an error.

I get this error when I run the command:

./logstash -f ./etc/logstash/conf.d/test-logstash.conf -v

Output:
translation missing: en.logstash.runner.configuration.file-not-found {:level=>:error}
starting agent {:level=>:info}

The data I want logstash to input is a large text file called: log.txt
Here are some of the lines found in the log.txt file:

2003-02-20 20:38:52.067 d_HbHS_t 42.7
2003-02-20 20:38:56.067 d_HbHS_t 42.7
2003-02-20 20:39:00.067 d_HbHS_t 42.7
2003-02-20 20:39:04.067 d_HbHS_t 43.4
2003-02-20 20:39:08.067 d_HbHS_t 42.7
2003-02-20 20:39:12.067 d_HbHS_t 42.7

Here I have a date (YYYY-MM-dd), time(HH:mm:ss:micro-seconds), parameter_name, parameter_value

Here is my configuration file for logstash:
input {
file {
path => "/home/ubuntu/data/log.txt"
type => "syslog"
start_position => beginning
}
}

filter {
grok {
match => { "message" => "%{DATESTAMP:timestamp} %{WORD:parameter} %{NUMBER:value:float}"}
}
}

output {
stdout {
codec => rubydebug
}
elasticsearch {
action => "index"
hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
index => "test-logstash-config"
}
}

Any insight into why there is a translation error will greatly appreciated.

2

What version are you on?

3

I believe start_position should be a string, e.g. start position => "beginning"

4

I get this error when I run the command:

./logstash -f ./etc/logstash/conf.d/test-logstash.conf -v

Output:
translation missing: en.logstash.runner.configuration.file-not-found {:level=>:error}
starting agent {:level=>:info}

Are you really in the root directory of the file system when you run this command? If not, remove the leading "." in the path.

5

Thanks Magnus, you are correct in that I needed to remove the the leading "." in the path.