# Unexpected character ('\<' (code 60))

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-character-code-60/138279>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 2, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-character-code-60/138279 "2018-07-02T21:11:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Pixarjunkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Pixarjunkie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pixarjunkie)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-character-code-60/138279/1 "2018-07-02T21:11:40Z")

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Hi, I'm new to using elasticsearch/logstash and I am trying to trouble shoot an error (this is also my first post here so apologies if I miss something.

I have created a logstash\_test.config file:

```auto
    > input {
    > file {
    > path => "C:/Users/Documents/data/test.csv"
    > start_position => "beginning"
    > sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
    > }
    > }
    > filter {
    > csv {
    > separator => ","
    > columns => ["failure_code", "problem_desc"]
    > }
    > mutate {convert => ["failure_code", "string"]}
    > mutate {convert => ["problem_desc", "string"]}
    > }
    > output {
    > elasticsearch {
    > hosts => "http://localhost:5601"
    > index => "test"
    > document_type => "description"
    > }
    > stdout {}
    > }

```

When I run '''bin/logstash ../data/logstash\_test.config''' I get the following output:

**Added in separate post**

My .csv file is very basic and only contains two string columns. There are no '\<' in the data anywhere and would love some help understanding what's causing this error. Thanks! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Pixarjunkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Pixarjunkie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pixarjunkie)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-character-code-60/138279/2 "2018-07-02T21:12:22Z")

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**Error log**

````auto
[2018-07-02T13:57:20,424][WARN][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[2018-07-02T13:57:20,886][INFO][logstash.runner] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"6.3.0"}
[2018-07-02T13:57:22,942][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] You are using a deprecated config setting "document_type" set in elasticsearch. Deprecated settings will continue to work, but are scheduled for removal from logstash in the future. Document types are being deprecated in Elasticsearch 6.0, and removed entirely in 7.0. You should avoid this feature If you have any questions about this, please visit the #logstash channel on freenode irc. {:name=>"document_type", :plugin=><LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch hosts=>[http://localhost:5601], index=>"pal", document_type=>"description", id=>"26578f68b4c2dfe576d0cf98c17ba77fb410a76d4c84a291697ed77396726829", enable_metric=>true, codec=><LogStash::Codecs::Plain id=>"plain_290c664e-7ae1-434b-87e3-e2a7ab5c4a6c", enable_metric=>true, charset=>"UTF-8">, workers=>1, manage_template=>true, template_name=>"logstash", template_overwrite=>false, doc_as_upsert=>false, script_type=>"inline", script_lang=>"painless", script_var_name=>"event", scripted_upsert=>false, retry_initial_interval=>2, retry_max_interval=>64, retry_on_conflict=>1, action=>"index", ssl_certificate_verification=>true, sniffing=>false, sniffing_delay=>5, timeout=>60, pool_max=>1000, pool_max_per_route=>100, resurrect_delay=>5, validate_after_inactivity=>10000, http_compression=>false>}
[2018-07-02T13:57:24,824][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Starting pipeline {:pipeline_id=>"main", "pipeline.workers"=>8, "pipeline.batch.size"=>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>50}
[2018-07-02T13:57:25,245][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Elasticsearch pool URLs updated {:changes=>{:removed=>[], :added=>[http://localhost:5601/]}}
[2018-07-02T13:57:25,253][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Running health check to see if an Elasticsearch connection is working {:healthcheck_url=>http://localhost:5601/, :path=>"/"}
[2018-07-02T13:57:25,415][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Restored connection to ES instance {:url=>"http://localhost:5601/"}
[2018-07-02T13:57:25,480][ERROR][logstash.pipeline] Error registering plugin {:pipeline_id=>"main", :plugin=>"#<LogStash::OutputDelegator:0x68750190>", :error=>"Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')\n at [Source: (byte[])\"<script>var hashRoute = '/app/kibana';\nvar defaultRoute = '/app/kibana';\n\nvar hash = window.location.hash;\nif (hash.length) {\n window.location = hashRoute + hash;\n} else {\n window.location = defaultRoute;\n}</script>\"; line: 1, column: 2]", :thread=>"#<Thread:0xc088756 run>"}
[2018-07-02T13:57:25,492][ERROR][logstash.pipeline] Pipeline aborted due to error {:pipeline_id=>"main", :exception=>#<LogStash::Json::ParserError: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')
 at [Source: (byte[])"<script>var hashRoute = '/app/kibana';
var defaultRoute = '/app/kibana';

var hash = window.location.hash;
if (hash.length) {
  window.location = hashRoute + hash;
} else {
  window.location = defaultRoute;
}</script>"; line: 1, column: 2]>, :backtrace=>["C:/Users/Documents/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/json.rb:17:in `jruby_load'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/http_client/pool.rb:447:in `get_es_version'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/http_client/pool.rb:249:in `block in healthcheck!'", "org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1343:in `each'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/http_client/pool.rb:241:in `healthcheck!'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/http_client/pool.rb:341:in `update_urls'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/http_client/pool.rb:71:in `start'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/http_client.rb:299:in `build_pool'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/http_client.rb:63:in `initialize'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/http_client_builder.rb:102:in `create_http_client'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/http_client_builder.rb:98:in `build'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch.rb:231:in `build_client'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.1.1-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/common.rb:24:in `register'", "org/logstash/config/ir/compiler/OutputStrategyExt.java:97:in `register'", "org/logstash/config/ir/compiler/OutputDelegatorExt.java:93:in `register'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:340:in `register_plugin'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:351:in `block in register_plugins'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in `each'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:351:in `register_plugins'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:728:in `maybe_setup_out_plugins'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:361:in `start_workers'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:288:in `run'", "C:/Users/Documents/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:248:in `block in start'"], :thread=>"#<Thread:0xc088756 run>"}
[2018-07-02T13:57:25,516][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:id=>:main, :action_type=>LogStash::ConvergeResult::FailedAction, :message=>"Could not execute action: PipelineAction::Create<main>, action_result: false", :backtrace=>nil}
[2018-07-02T13:57:25,834][INFO][logstash.agent] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}```
````

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-character-code-60/138279/3 "2018-07-02T22:56:11Z")

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> [@Pixarjunkie](#):
>
> hosts =\> "[http://localhost:5601](http://localhost:5601)"

Really? Are you sure that should be 5601 rather than 9200? It looks to me like it is connecting to kibana (and getting that HTML back) when it should be talking to elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![Pixarjunkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Pixarjunkie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pixarjunkie)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-character-code-60/138279/4 "2018-07-03T15:27:39Z")

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This was exactly the issue, thanks! Changed `hosts => "http://localhost:5601"` to just `hosts => "localhost"`

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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 31, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unexpected-character-code-60/138279/5 "2018-07-31T15:27:40Z")

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