Logstash Produces No Output - csv

Question

I followed the tutorial found here to set up the ELK stack, and eventually I managed to get everything working. When I tried to modify the system to read in CSV files, however, it stopped working entirely. The conf file looks like this:
input {
file {
path => "/home/user/remaining/path/*.csv"
type => "transaction"
start_position => "beginning"
}
}
filter {
if [type] == "transaction" {
csv {
columns => ["#timestamp", "ip address", "domain", "user", "demo", "id", "activity", "detail"]
separator => ","
}
}
}
output {
stdout {
codec => rubydebug
}
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
action => "index"
index => "logstash-test"
workers => 1
}
}
I've tried following a number of tutorials and guides for setting this up, and as far as I can tell logstash is still connected to elasticsearch. I just don't see any output. My suspicion is that it isn't reading the files at all. Part of the problem is that I'm not sure how to test each component of logstash. Is there something I'm likely to have missed?
Edit:
csv files look generally like this:
2016-02-29T22:26:39.319700,22.111.11.11,place.domain.ca,bob,DEMO,95081299250aa8,TI_START,"{'field': 'data', 'field2': 'moredata', 'anotherfield': 'evenmoredata', 'continuedfield': 'habbo', 'size': '16'}"
2016-02-29T22:27:00.098426,24.111.11.11,otherplace.domain.ca,bob,DEMO,390s8clearlyfake,TI_END,"{'field': 'data', 'field2': 'moredata', 'anotherfield': 'evenmoredata', 'continuedfield': 'habbo', 'size': '16'}"
I've also noticed that when I go to localhost:9200/logstash-test/ I'm getting a 404. I'm not sure if this is because there's no data transmitting, or if it's a different connection issue.

Answer 1

As part of the discussion here: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-showing-any-output-solved/28636/16
My files were more than 24 hours old, which is the default expiry time for a file input. It was fixed by changing the following where ignore_older was 86400 as a default:
input {
file {
ignore_older => 864000
path => "/home/sean/cost-logs/transaction/*.csv"
type => "transaction"
start_position => "beginning"
}
}