# Novice:something wrong with configuration error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/novice-something-wrong-with-configuration-error/56614
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 28, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/novice-something-wrong-with-configuration-error/56614 "2016-07-28T11:13:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Ankush\_Mehta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ankush_Mehta)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/novice-something-wrong-with-configuration-error/56614/1 "2016-07-28T11:13:55Z")
I am a beginner in ELK and this is my first try in running logstash.I followed the following step:
1. Created a config file(ANSI encoding) in my local C:\logstash-1.5.2\conf\logstash\_test.config.The contents are as below(I am just trying to run, I don't have much idea about the below contents):
input { stdin { } }
filter {
grok {
match =\> { "message" =\> "%{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}" }
}
date {
match =\> ["timestamp" , "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z"]
}
}
output {
elasticsearch { hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"] }
stdout { codec =\> rubydebug }
}
2) I ran the below command
logstash -f C:\logstash-1.5.2\conf\logstash\_test.config
3) I am getting an error
io/console not supported; tty will not be manipulated
←[31mUnknown setting 'hosts' for elasticsearch {:level=\>:error}←[0m
Error: Something is wrong with your configuration.
You may be interested in the '--configtest' flag which you can
use to validate logstash's configuration before you choose
to restart a running system.
Other details
Logstash version: 1.5.2
OS: Windows 7
Kindly help.
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### Author:  [@Ankush\_Mehta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ankush_Mehta)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/novice-something-wrong-with-configuration-error/56614/2 "2016-07-28T12:33:39Z")
I replaced hosts with host and it moved ahead-startup completed.Now I pasted the following line into the terminal so it will be processed by the stdin input.
127.0.0.1 - - [11/Dec/2013:00:01:45 -0800] "GET /xampp/status.php HTTP/1.1" 200 3891 "[http://cadenza/xampp/navi.php](http://cadenza/xampp/navi.php)" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0"
I get the below error.Kindly help.
9; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0"
←[31mGot error to send bulk of actions: blocked by: [SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/1/state
not recovered / initialized];[SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/2/no master]; {:level=\>:error
}←[0m
←[33mFailed to flush outgoing items {:outgoing\_count=\>1, :exception=\>org.elastic
search.cluster.block.ClusterBlockException: blocked by: [SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/1/s
tate not recovered / initialized];[SERVICE\_UNAVAILABLE/2/no master];, :backtrace
=\>["org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlocks.globalBlockedException(org/ela
sticsearch/cluster/block/ClusterBlocks.java:151)", "org.elasticsearch.cluster.bl
ock.ClusterBlocks.globalBlockedRaiseException(org/elasticsearch/cluster/block/Cl
usterBlocks.java:141)", "org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction.execu
teBulk(org/elasticsearch/action/bulk/TransportBulkAction.java:210)", "org.elasti
csearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction.access$000(org/elasticsearch/action/bulk
/TransportBulkAction.java:73)", "org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkActi
on$1.onFailure(org/elasticsearch/action/bulk/TransportBulkAction.java:148)", "or
g.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction$ThreadedActionListener$2.run(org/
elasticsearch/action/support/TransportAction.java:137)", "java.util.concurrent.T
hreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(java/util/concurrent/ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)",
"java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(java/util/concurrent/Thread
PoolExecutor.java:615)", "java.lang.Thread.run(java/lang/Thread.java:745)"], :le
vel=\>:warn}←[0m
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### Author:  [@niraj\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niraj_kumar)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/novice-something-wrong-with-configuration-error/56614/3 "2016-07-28T20:03:33Z")
What's the state of ES(health) and does ES logs have anything while you run Elasticsearch.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/novice-something-wrong-with-configuration-error/56614/4 "2017-07-06T04:46:04Z")