is there any easy way to push the data to elasticsearch via logstash

Question

This is my logstash code

input {
    file {
       path => "C:/Users/Rajaraman/Documents/logstashfiles/demo.txt"
       start_position => "beginning"
    }
}
filter {}
output {
    elasticsearch {
        hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
    }
}

Logstash is running fine but index not created in elastic search

Answer 1

To check if your logstash is doing anything do:

$ curl -XGET 'localhost:9600/_node/stats/events?pretty'
{
  "events" : {
    "in" : 293658,
    "filtered" : 293658,
    "out" : 293658,
    "duration_in_millis" : 2324391,
    "queue_push_duration_in_millis" : 343816
  }