# Vertica connection with ELK

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vertica-connection-with-elk/277691>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 2, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vertica-connection-with-elk/277691 "2021-07-02T22:33:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![simran96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@simran96](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simran96)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vertica-connection-with-elk/277691/1 "2021-07-02T22:33:49Z")

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hi, im trying to connect Vertica with ELastic search and writing the conf file for the same.

```auto
input {
                        jdbc {
                                    jdbc_validate_connection => true
                                    jdbc_connection_string => "jdbc:vertica://localhost:5433/shr4_vrt_005"
                                    jdbc_user => "nnnn"
                                    jdbc_password => "yyy"
                                    jdbc_driver_library =>"/home/fh/sim/vertica-jdbc-7.2.3-0.jar"
                                    jdbc_driver_class => "com.vertica.jdbc.Driver"
                                                        statement => "select * from xyz where rownum <2"
                               }
        }

output {
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => [" "]
    index => "vertica1"
  }
   stdout {codec => rubydebug}
}

```

But im getting the error -\>

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1a27f859c3fd8928ff58acb8ab640722ac2bfbbf.png)

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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 30, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vertica-connection-with-elk/277691/2 "2021-07-30T22:34:14Z")

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