# Unable to connect from kafka as input and output as elasticsearch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-from-kafka-as-input-and-output-as-elasticsearch/154997
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 1, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-from-kafka-as-input-and-output-as-elasticsearch/154997 "2018-11-01T10:58:33Z")
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### Author: ![vasanthprthv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@vasanthprthv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vasanthprthv)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-from-kafka-as-input-and-output-as-elasticsearch/154997/1 "2018-11-01T10:58:34Z")

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Iam trying to use logstash to connect data from kafka to elasticsearch.  
when I use stdin {} in the input , output is coming in the elasticsearch but when i give kafka { } as input , the output was not coming to elasticsearch .

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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: [November 29, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-from-kafka-as-input-and-output-as-elasticsearch/154997/2 "2018-11-29T10:58:37Z")

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