# Reason for the warning

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reason-for-the-warning/360759>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 4, 2024, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reason-for-the-warning/360759 "2024-06-04T06:29:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reason-for-the-warning/360759/1 "2024-06-04T06:29:50Z")

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I have an logstash conf file like

````auto
input {
  s3 {
    access_key_id => "redacted"
    secret_access_key => "redacted"
    bucket => "aws-cloudtrail-logs-905418385260-a48e6842"
    delete => false
    interval => 30 # seconds
    prefix => "AWSLogs/905418385260/"
    type => "cloudtrail"
    codec => "cloudtrail"
    # credentials => "/etc/logstash/s3_credentials.ini"
    # sincedb_path => "/opt/logstash_cloudtrail/sincedb"
  }
}

output {
  stdout{
    # codec => "rubydebug"  
  }
  s3 {
    access_key_id => "redacted"
    secret_access_key => "redacted"
    region => "us-east-1"
    bucket => "logstash-test-random"
    prefix => "logs/%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
    retry_count => 1
    additional_settings => {
      "force_path_style" => true
      "follow_redirects" => false
    }
    time_file => 4
    codec => "json"
    rotation_strategy => "time"    
    temporary_directory => "C:\elk\logstash-8.13.1\config"
  }
}```

whenever i run this conf i get the following warning

````

[2024-06-04T11:45:59,223][WARN][logstash.outputs.s3][main] Uploading failed, retrying (#674 of Infinity) {:exception=\>ArgumentError, :message=\>":key must not be blank", :path=\>"C:\elk\logstash-8.13.1\config/jvm.options", :backtrace=\>["C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/rest/request/endpoint.rb:42:in `param_value_for_placeholder'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/rest/request/endpoint.rb:35:in `block in apply\_path\_params'", "org/jruby/RubyString.java:3186:in `gsub'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/rest/request/endpoint.rb:34:in `apply\_path\_params'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/rest/request/endpoint.rb:25:in `uri'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/rest/request/builder.rb:25:in `populate\_endpoint'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/rest/request/builder.rb:10:in `apply'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/rest/handler.rb:9:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/recursion\_detection.rb:18:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/plugins/endpoints.rb:49:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/endpoint\_discovery.rb:84:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/seahorse/client/plugins/endpoint.rb:47:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/param\_validator.rb:26:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/seahorse/client/plugins/raise_response_errors.rb:16:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/plugins/sse\_cpk.rb:24:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/plugins/dualstack.rb:21:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/plugins/accelerate.rb:43:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/checksum_algorithm.rb:111:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/jsonvalue\_converter.rb:16:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/idempotency_token.rb:19:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/param\_converter.rb:26:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/seahorse/client/plugins/request_callback.rb:89:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/response\_paging.rb:12:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/seahorse/client/plugins/response_target.rb:24:in `call'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/seahorse/client/request.rb:72:in `send_request'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/client.rb:15579:in `put\_object'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/file\_uploader.rb:66:in `block in put_object'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/file_uploader.rb:55:in `block in open\_file'", "org/jruby/RubyIO.java:1179:in `open'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/file_uploader.rb:55:in `open\_file'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/file\_uploader.rb:65:in `put_object'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/file_uploader.rb:46:in `block in upload'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/user\_agent.rb:28:in `feature'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/file_uploader.rb:40:in `upload'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/customizations/object.rb:477:in `block in upload_file'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-core-3.191.4/lib/aws-sdk-core/plugins/user_agent.rb:28:in `feature'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/aws-sdk-s3-1.146.0/lib/aws-sdk-s3/customizations/object.rb:476:in `upload_file'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/logstash-integration-aws-7.1.6-java/lib/logstash/outputs/s3/uploader.rb:41:in `upload'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/logstash-integration-aws-7.1.6-java/lib/logstash/outputs/s3/uploader.rb:30:in `block in upload_async'", "C:/elk/logstash-8.13.1/vendor/bundle/jruby/3.1.0/gems/concurrent-ruby-1.1.9/lib/concurrent-ruby/concurrent/executor/java_executor_service.rb:79:in `run'"]} ```

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/3/f3ed143d1d7c071149c0a624ae5c9fb8ecf4563e.png)

Things to note

1. using codec json , the files are getting uploaded to s3 even though the warning still persists
2. i have tried to do retry\_count = 0 it still showed the warning
3. logs are getting generated (verified by stdout) and temp file is also getting made

Another issue  
using codec cloudtrail in s3 output, i get the same warning about 90 something times and then the program catches some uncaught error and stops( idk why if somebody could tell why would be great)
