# Not able to connect to hive with logstash input

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-connect-to-hive-with-logstash-input/104046>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 16, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-connect-to-hive-with-logstash-input/104046 "2017-10-16T04:52:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Navinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Navinder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Navinder)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-connect-to-hive-with-logstash-input/104046/1 "2017-10-16T04:52:27Z")

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Hi I am using below input in logstash.

input {  
jdbc { jdbc\_driver\_library =\> "home/app/hive-jdbc-2.0.0.jar" jdbc\_driver\_class =\> "org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver" jdbc\_connection\_string =\> "jdbc:hive2://xxxxxxx:10000/database" jdbc\_user =\> “user” statement =\> "Select \* from mytable" }  
}

It's throwing me the error below.

{:timestamp=\>"2017-10-16T04:47:17.237000+0000", :message=\>"Pipeline aborted due to error", :exception=\>#\<Sequel::DatabaseConnectionError: Java::JavaLang::NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/thrift/TException\>, :backtrace=\>["org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver.connect(org/apache/hive/jdbc/HiveDriver.java:107)", "java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(java/sql/DriverManager.java:664)", "java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(java/sql/DriverManager.java:270)", "j........................}

Am I doing anything wrong? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Navinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Navinder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Navinder)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-connect-to-hive-with-logstash-input/104046/2 "2017-10-17T06:28:20Z")

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@magnusbaeck Can you help with above?

Is there any other way to do this as well? Thanks

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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:** [November 14, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-connect-to-hive-with-logstash-input/104046/3 "2017-11-14T06:28:37Z")

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