# Simple logstash.conf not producing index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-logstash-conf-not-producing-index/164721>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 18, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-logstash-conf-not-producing-index/164721 "2019-01-18T01:49:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![lynnptilby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@lynnptilby](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lynnptilby)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-logstash-conf-not-producing-index/164721/1 "2019-01-18T01:49:09Z")

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Here is my logstash.conf:

input {  
file {  
"path" /home/ubuntu/ELK/2018-12-05-17-33.log  
}  
}

output {  
elasticsearch {  
"hosts" =\> "127.0.0.1"  
"index" =\> "hwm\_a"  
}  
}

There are no errors in /var/log/ syslog ./elasticsearch/gc.log.0.current ./logstash/logstash-plain.log , and hwm\_a does not show up in Create Index Pattern.

I am restarting logstash with systemctl restart logstash each time logstash.conf is changed.

Thank You for your help!

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**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-logstash-conf-not-producing-index/164721/2 "2019-01-18T04:40:22Z")

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Hey @lynnptilby,

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-create-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-create-index.html)  
also in place of 127.0.0.1 put 127.0.0.1:9200

would suggest you to change the name of the index.

Regards  
Shrikant

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**Author:** ![lynnptilby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/47e85d/32.png) [@lynnptilby](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lynnptilby)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-logstash-conf-not-producing-index/164721/3 "2019-01-18T16:40:15Z")

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Hi,

I made the changes suggested above:

```
"hosts" => "127.0.0.1:9200"
"index" => "hwmb"

```

No difference... hwmb is not showing in Kibana in Create index pattern.

My gut feel is that this is not a logstash.conf syntax problem; but, is perhaps an elasticsearch problem?

THOUGHTS anyone?

Thanks again everyone for your help!

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**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-logstash-conf-not-producing-index/164721/4 "2019-01-20T17:02:02Z")

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Hello,

when you ping localhost:9200 does it give info about the cluster name ?

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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:** [January 20, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-logstash-conf-not-producing-index/164721/5 "2019-01-20T17:13:01Z")

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The file input plugin is designed to by default tail the file, so will not process anything unless data is appended to it. You can change this behaviour by setting `sincedb_path` and `start_position` parameters as outlined in [this blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/a-practical-introduction-to-logstash).

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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:** [February 17, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-logstash-conf-not-producing-index/164721/6 "2019-02-17T17:13:05Z")

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