# Logstash-OSS with x-pack load error

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/logstash-oss-with-x-pack-load-error/23488>\
**Category:** Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana\
**Tags:** upgrade\
**Created:** [February 21, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/logstash-oss-with-x-pack-load-error/23488 "2025-02-21T18:37:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shweta1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Shweta1](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/Shweta1)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/logstash-oss-with-x-pack-load-error/23488/1 "2025-02-21T18:37:33Z")

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Hello! I am trying to upgrade logstash 7.16.3 to logstash-oss 8.17.2. After installing logsatsh-oss I am getting x-pack load error even though all x-pack settings are commented out in logstash.yml file. Opensearch version I am using is 2.8

Here is the error :

Logstash - Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (LoadError) no such file to load – x-pack/logstash\_registryorg.jruby.exceptions.LoadError: (LoadError) no such file to load – x-pack/logstash\_registry at org.jruby.RubyKernel.require(org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1187) ~[jruby.jar:?] at RUBY.load\_xpack(/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/plugins/registry.rb:147) ~[?:?] at RUBY.setup!(/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/plugins/registry.rb:130) ~[?:?] at RUBY.class:Runner(/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:278) ~[?:?] at RUBY.(/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:56) ~[?:?] at org.jruby.RubyKernel.require(org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1187) ~[jruby.jar:?] at usr.share.logstash.lib.bootstrap.environment.(/usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb:88) ~[?:?]

After looking at the file “/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/plugins/registry.rb” found one function which is calling load\_xpack where it is failing with error as x-pack dir “/usr/share/logstash/x-pack/lib/x-pack” is empty  
def setup!  
load\_xpack unless LogStash::OSS  
load\_available\_plugins  
execute\_universal\_plugins  
end

Anyone here seen this issue before. Please help. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![nateynate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/nateynate/32/4913_2.png) [@nateynate](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/nateynate)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/logstash-oss-with-x-pack-load-error/23488/2 "2025-02-25T18:43:40Z")

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> [@Shweta1](#):
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> Anyone here seen this issue before. Please help. Thank you!

Hi @Shweta1!

It looks like you might be using a version of logstash that’s meant to work with ElasticSearch specifically. You might want to check out [GitHub - opensearch-project/logstash-output-opensearch: A Logstash plugin that sends event data to a OpenSearch clusters and stores as an index.](https://github.com/opensearch-project/logstash-output-opensearch) and see if that helps you any better.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/mauve_hedgehog/original/2X/3/33547ea01a5b12dcca2958411d3edd97ae2ea8c1.png) [@system](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/logstash-oss-with-x-pack-load-error/23488/3 "2025-04-26T18:44:16Z")

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