Can not process text file locally using logstash input plugin

Question

I want to process a text file locally and the output I want to save in a file as log/text. This is my code but this does not work.

input {
   file {
      path => "C:/Users/USERNAME/Documents/Projects/test_data.txt"
      start_position => beginning

   }
} 

filter {

}

output {
    stdout { codec => rubydebug } 
    file {
        path => "C:/Users/USERNAME/Documents/Projects/out.log"
    }
}

In the terminal I have noticed

incedb_path set, generating one based on the "path" setting {:sincedb_path=>"C:/Users/..