Reading JSON data from logstash

Elastic Stack Logstash
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Hi all,
I have a lot of JSON data and I want to visualize it. I have seen the POST_bulk method in Kibana, but it is not dynamic. We can not update the data whenever it is being generated. So, I thought of using logstash for this purpose and read my JSON files. I am not able to find the exact solution to this. I am posting my logstash.conf file below. What changes do I have to make?

input{
    file{
        path => "C:\Users\tushar\Documents\Reports\JsonData\first_run*.json"
        start_position => "beginning"
        type => "json"
        sincedb_path => "NULL"
    }
    #  stdin{}
}

filter{
    json{
        source => "message"
    }
}
output{
      elasticsearch{
          hosts => "http://localhost:9200"
           index => "jsondata"
     }
    stdout{
        codec =>"rubydebug"
    }
}
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I have gone through a few discussions on this topic on this site only. But I am not able to find the solution from those discussions. Also currently by using this logstash.conf, I am not able to read the JSON file and it is not getting reflected in Kibana UI Index. Kindly, help me with this.
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Do not use backslash in the path option of a file input, use forward slash.

If you do not want the in-memory sincedb persisted across restarts then on Windows set the sincedb_path option to "NUL".

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I did the changes but it was of no use still it is not reading the JSON data from that directory.

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