Hi @Badger please see below as i cannot see any output after running the logstash.
C:\Users\Downloads\logstash-6.6.0\logstash-6.6.0\bin>logstash -f "C:\Users\Downloads\ELK\pimtab-exp-api.conf"
Sending Logstash logs to C:/Users/Downloads/logstash-6.6.0/logstash-6.6.0/logs which is now configured via log4j2.properties
[2019-02-17T01:35:39,123][WARN ][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[2019-02-17T01:35:39,169][INFO ][logstash.runner ] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"6.6.0"}
[2019-02-17T01:35:55,107][INFO ][logstash.pipeline ] Starting pipeline {:pipeline_id=>"main", "pipeline.workers"=>4, "pipeline.batch.size"=>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>50}
[2019-02-17T01:35:55,833][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Elasticsearch pool URLs updated {:changes=>{:removed=>[], :added=>[http://localhost:9200/]}}
[2019-02-17T01:35:56,209][WARN ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Restored connection to ES instance {:url=>"http://localhost:9200/"}
[2019-02-17T01:35:56,300][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] ES Output version determined {:es_version=>6}
[2019-02-17T01:35:56,315][WARN ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Detected a 6.x and above cluster: the `type` event field won't be used to determine the document _type {:es_version=>6}
[2019-02-17T01:35:56,395][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] New Elasticsearch output {:class=>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch", :hosts=>["//localhost:9200"]}
[2019-02-17T01:35:56,417][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Using mapping template from {:path=>nil}
[2019-02-17T01:35:56,470][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Attempting to install template {:manage_template=>{"template"=>"logstash-*", "version"=>60001, "settings"=>{"index.refresh_interval"=>"5s"}, "mappings"=>{"_default_"=>{"dynamic_templates"=>[{"message_field"=>{"path_match"=>"message", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false}}}, {"string_fields"=>{"match"=>"*", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false, "fields"=>{"keyword"=>{"type"=>"keyword", "ignore_above"=>256}}}}}], "properties"=>{"@timestamp"=>{"type"=>"date"}, "@version"=>{"type"=>"keyword"}, "geoip"=>{"dynamic"=>true, "properties"=>{"ip"=>{"type"=>"ip"}, "location"=>{"type"=>"geo_point"}, "latitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}, "longitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}}}}}}}}
[2019-02-17T01:35:57,533][INFO ][logstash.pipeline ] Pipeline started successfully {:pipeline_id=>"main", :thread=>"#<Thread:0x4dbfdcbe run>"}
[2019-02-17T01:35:57,643][INFO ][logstash.agent ] Pipelines running {:count=>1, :running_pipelines=>[:main], :non_running_pipelines=>[]}
[2019-02-17T01:35:57,664][INFO ][filewatch.observingtail ] START, creating Discoverer, Watch with file and sincedb collections
[2019-02-17T01:35:58,179][INFO ][logstash.agent ] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}
I dont see any dots as per my conf file. Did you try to use the same conf file data i have posted here earlier?
Please let me know if you need anything more to resolve or help?