# Logstash update by query not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-update-by-query-not-working/171476>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 8, 2019, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-update-by-query-not-working/171476 "2019-03-08T11:08:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Chelambarasan\_CR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chelambarasan_cr/32/62592_2.png) [@Chelambarasan\_CR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chelambarasan_CR)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-update-by-query-not-working/171476/1 "2019-03-08T11:08:37Z")

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````
output {
stdout {
codec =&gt; rubydebug
}
http {

```
	url => "http://localhost:9200/test1/_update_by_query?q=id:1"
	http_method => "post"
	format => "json"
```

}
}

````

Tried this for update by query in logstash output. Got below error  
[2019-03-08T16:17:34,642][ERROR][logstash.outputs.http] [HTTP Output Failure] Encountered non-2xx HTTP code 400 {:response\_code=\>400, :url=\>"[http://localhos](http://localhos)  
, :will\_retry=\>false}by\_query?q=\_id:1", :event=\>2019-03-08T10:47:33.712Z CHNMCT123553L 1,samplexml

Can you help on this?

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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:** [April 5, 2019, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-update-by-query-not-working/171476/2 "2019-04-05T11:08:49Z")

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