# Odd Logstash Message

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-logstash-message/35254>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 22, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-logstash-message/35254 "2015-11-22T23:06:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![dsmhood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@dsmhood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dsmhood)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-logstash-message/35254/1 "2015-11-22T23:06:53Z")

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Hi all,

I'm trying to use Logstash for the first time, I've setup my configuration files and it was working perfectly but suddenly now it's stopped. I think I've made a change but I don't 100% remember what change would have caused this.

I've got for you:  
elasticsearch.yml: [http://pastebin.com/ihqeTfQv](http://pastebin.com/ihqeTfQv)  
The error message from Logstash: [http://pastebin.com/ibhTmStN](http://pastebin.com/ibhTmStN)  
The error message from elasticsearch: [http://pastebin.com/fNXJVvZz](http://pastebin.com/fNXJVvZz)

What have I done wrong?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-logstash-message/35254/2 "2015-11-22T23:36:29Z")

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What versions of things are you running?

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**Author:** ![dsmhood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@dsmhood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dsmhood)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-logstash-message/35254/3 "2015-11-23T04:53:37Z")

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I'm using:

Elasticsearch 2.0.0  
Logstash 2.0.0

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-logstash-message/35254/4 "2015-11-23T04:59:19Z")

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You may be running into [this](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/breaking_20_network_changes.html#_bind_to_localhost) with ES, so check it and try again 🙂

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-logstash-message/35254/5 "2015-11-23T05:04:23Z")

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What does your Logstash config look like? Elasticsearch seems to be complaining about an illegal setting for the \_type field:

> [2015-11-23 19:54:27,414][INFO][rest.suppressed] /\_bulk Params: {}  
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed action/metadata line [1], expected a simple value for field [\_type] but found [START\_ARRAY]

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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, 5:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/odd-logstash-message/35254/6 "2017-07-06T05:21:46Z")

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