# Unable to connect Logstash and Elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-logstash-and-elasticsearch/82357
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 13, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-logstash-and-elasticsearch/82357 "2017-04-13T20:51:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@likhita](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/likhita)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-logstash-and-elasticsearch/82357/1 "2017-04-13T20:51:36Z")
Hello,
I have installed Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana on my CentOS 7 machine. I was able to do the installations successfully. But when I try to access the apache access logs, it doesn't get the output. here is what I have done.
I've created a file sudo vi /etc/logstash/conf.d/01-webserver.conf
Added the following code in the file to access the logs:
input
{
file
{
path =\> "/var/log/httpd/access\_log"
start\_position =\> "beginning"
}
}
filter
{
if [type] == "apache-access"
{
grok
{
match =\> { "message" =\> "%{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}" }
}
}
date
{
match =\> ["timestamp" , "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z"]
}
}
output
{
elasticsearch
{
hosts =\> ["127.0.0.1:9200"]
}
stdout { codec =\> rubydebug }
}
Then, I run this command to list the logstash indexes:
curl -XGET [http://127.0.0.1:9200/\_cat/indices?v](http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cat/indices?v)
It gives me this:
health status index pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
yellow open .kibana 1 1 1 0 3.1kb 3.1kb
It doesn't show any log related logstash indexes here.
can you please help!!
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-logstash-and-elasticsearch/82357/2 "2017-04-13T21:13:52Z")
Do not cross-post the same requests. This is not acceptable.
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-logstash-and-elasticsearch/82357/3 "2017-04-13T21:13:59Z")