# Trouble installing logstash kv filter plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-installing-logstash-kv-filter-plugin/1864>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 3, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-installing-logstash-kv-filter-plugin/1864 "2015-06-03T18:57:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Donald\_Nguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@Donald\_Nguyen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Donald_Nguyen)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-installing-logstash-kv-filter-plugin/1864/1 "2015-06-03T18:57:31Z")

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Hi Logstash Community!

I am learning to use the ELK stack and currently trying to install the kv  
filter plugin for logstash but nothing seems to work for me. I first tried  
to install filter plugins manual following the foo.rb hello world tutorial.  
I later discover that in logstash 1.5.0 there is a new way to installing  
plugins using "bin/plugin install," but its giving me this message, "Can  
only install contrib at this time... Exiting."

Is it possible to install filter plugins at this point for logstash 1.5.0?  
if it is, can someone be so kind to point me to the right tutorial?

Thanks,  
Donald

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**Author:** ![jordansissel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jordansissel/32/44957_2.png) [@jordansissel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jordansissel)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-installing-logstash-kv-filter-plugin/1864/2 "2015-06-03T22:52:37Z")

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> [@Donald\_Nguyen](#):
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> Can  
> only install contrib at this time

This message only occurs with Logstash 1.4.x, not Logstash 1.5.0. Are you certain you're running Logstash 1.5.0? What is the output of `bin/logstash version` ?

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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, 5:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-installing-logstash-kv-filter-plugin/1864/3 "2017-07-06T05:38:38Z")

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