# 2 configurations for logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-configurations-for-logstash/279107
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 19, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-configurations-for-logstash/279107 "2021-07-19T19:54:44Z")
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### Author:  [@creativeguitar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/creativeguitar)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-configurations-for-logstash/279107/1 "2021-07-19T19:54:44Z")
I have 2 configs under /etc/logstash/conf.d/
If I load the configs individually
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/config1.conf
and then
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/config2.conf
both configs load great.
Also if I leave only 1 config inside conf.d directory and start logstash with
systemctl start logstash
the config loads great.
if I leave both configs and start logstash with "systemctl start logstash" then all the config parsing gets messed up and I end up with extra columns on both indexes.
have you ever seen anything like this? I dont even know how to start researching this problem.
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### Author:  [@creativeguitar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/creativeguitar)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-configurations-for-logstash/279107/2 "2021-07-19T20:39:22Z")
after finding this post [Logstash mixing up two configuration files?! - #4 by RonGros](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-mixing-up-two-configuration-files/238540/4)
I defined 1 pipeline per config file and now its working correctly.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-configurations-for-logstash/279107/3 "2021-08-16T20:40:11Z")
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