# Not able to input data from github and create an index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-input-data-from-github-and-create-an-index/102841>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 5, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-input-data-from-github-and-create-an-index/102841 "2017-10-05T12:52:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aynkaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Aynkaran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aynkaran)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-input-data-from-github-and-create-an-index/102841/1 "2017-10-05T12:52:42Z")

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Using the "enable forwarding log feature in github" to forward syslog to my logstash server. And my task is to recieve the input from github and create index for the same in Kibana.

Has anyone worked on this before.

Right now I have enabled log forwarding on my github server

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/0/107fb916f2625e95c1fa0f655cfed85e2f673cb6.png)

this is the conf file i have created  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/e/7ee1d6d4791c3c4cee1a4d0433e88fd7b09a8d88.png)

When i run it, it runs but the index is not getting created (i have commented the line to create index now, but it hadnt created index earlier too)

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-input-data-from-github-and-create-an-index/102841/2 "2017-10-05T19:46:18Z")

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Are you getting anything from your stdout output?

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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 2, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-input-data-from-github-and-create-an-index/102841/3 "2017-11-02T19:46:27Z")

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Closed on November 2, 2017, 7:46pm UTC

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