# NoMethodError thrown in logstash/pipeline.rb using couchdb\_changes on Alpha 5

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nomethoderror-thrown-in-logstash-pipeline-rb-using-couchdb-changes-on-alpha-5/58410>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 18, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nomethoderror-thrown-in-logstash-pipeline-rb-using-couchdb-changes-on-alpha-5/58410 "2016-08-18T23:55:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![jarederaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jarederaj/32/11467_2.png) [@jarederaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jarederaj)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nomethoderror-thrown-in-logstash-pipeline-rb-using-couchdb-changes-on-alpha-5/58410/1 "2016-08-18T23:55:04Z")

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I'm on:

Ubuntu 16.04  
ELK Alpha 5 release 5  
x-pack is installed  
CouchDB is not secured  
SSL is not setup

Debug output:

```
{:timestamp=>"2016-08-18T17:25:07.107000-0600",
        :message=>"A plugin had an unrecoverable error. Will restart this plugin.
    Plugin: <LogStash::Inputs::CouchDBChanges db=>\"nt-jpad\",
        enable_metric=>true,
        codec=><LogStash::Codecs::Plain enable_metric=>true,
        charset=>\"UTF-8\">,
        host=>\"localhost\",
        port=>5984,
        secure=>false,
        password=><password>,
        heartbeat=>1000,
        keep_revision=>false,
        ignore_attachments=>true,
        always_reconnect=>true,
        reconnect_delay=>10>
    Error: undefined method `[]' for 2016-08-18T23:25:07.096Z %{host} %{message}:LogStash::Event
    Exception: NoMethodError
    Stack: /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-input-couchdb_changes-3.0.2/lib/logstash/inputs/couchdb_changes.rb:167:in `run'
    org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1613:in `each'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-input-couchdb_changes-3.0.2/lib/logstash/inputs/couchdb_changes.rb:154:in `run'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/protocol.rb:395:in `call_block'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/protocol.rb:386:in `<<'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/protocol.rb:94:in `read'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:2785:in `read_chunked'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:2759:in `read_body_0'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:2719:in `read_body'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-input-couchdb_changes-3.0.2/lib/logstash/inputs/couchdb_changes.rb:153:in `run'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:1331:in `transport_request'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:2680:in `reading_body'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:1330:in `transport_request'
    org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1242:in `catch'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:1325:in `transport_request'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:1302:in `request'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-input-couchdb_changes-3.0.2/lib/logstash/inputs/couchdb_changes.rb:148:in `run'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:746:in `start'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/ruby/1.9/net/http.rb:557:in `start'
    /usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-input-couchdb_changes-3.0.2/lib/logstash/inputs/couchdb_changes.rb:144:in `run'
    /usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:323:in `inputworker'
    /usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:317:in `start_input'",
        :level=>:error,
        :file=>"logstash/pipeline.rb",
        :line=>"334",
        :method=>"inputworker"}

```

`

My configuration:

```
input {
    couchdb_changes {
        db => "nt-jpad"
    }
}

output {
    file {
        path => "/home/jared/testing.txt"
    }
}

```

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![jarederaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jarederaj/32/11467_2.png) [@jarederaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jarederaj)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nomethoderror-thrown-in-logstash-pipeline-rb-using-couchdb-changes-on-alpha-5/58410/2 "2016-08-19T15:20:59Z")

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It looks like there's not a lot happening for this plugin in alpha, or maybe I'm just not sure which branch to work out of. Does anybody know if there's a need for more contributors in this project?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nomethoderror-thrown-in-logstash-pipeline-rb-using-couchdb-changes-on-alpha-5/58410/3 "2017-07-06T04:42:31Z")

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