# Cant get multiple logstash pipelines to work

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-multiple-logstash-pipelines-to-work/156530>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 13, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-multiple-logstash-pipelines-to-work/156530 "2018-11-13T18:56:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![tlenya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@tlenya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tlenya)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-multiple-logstash-pipelines-to-work/156530/1 "2018-11-13T18:56:32Z")

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Here is a snippet from my pipeline.yml

- pipeline.id: my\_csv  
config.string: "input { generator {} } filter { sleep { time =\> 1 } } output { stdout { codec =\> dots } }"  
path.config: "D:\ELK\logstash-6.4.2\config\*.conf"

[2018-11-13T21:28:01,304][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:action=\>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline\_id:main, :exception=\>"LogStash::ConfigurationError", :message=\>"Expected one of #, input, filter, output at line 17, column 1 (byte 617) after # List of pipelines to be loaded by Logstash\n#\n# This document must be a list of dictionaries/hashes, where the keys/values are pipeline settings.\n# Default values for ommitted settings are read from the `logstash.yml` file.\n# When declaring multiple pipelines, each MUST have its own `pipeline.id`.\n#\n# Example of two pipelines:\n#\n# - pipeline.id: test\n# pipeline.workers: 1\n# pipeline.batch.size: 1\n# config.string: "input { generator {} } filter { sleep { time =\> 1 } } output { stdout { codec =\> dots } }"\n# - pipeline.id: another\_test\n# queue.type: persisted\n# path.config: "/tmp/logstash/\*.config"\n#\n", :backtrace=\>["D:/ELK/logstash-6.4.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:41:in `compile_imperative'", "D:/ELK/logstash-6.4.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:49:in`compile\_graph'", "D:/ELK/logstash-6.4.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:11:in `block in compile_sources'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:2486:in`map'", "D:/ELK/logstash-6.4.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:10:in `compile_sources'", "org/logstash/execution/AbstractPipelineExt.java:149:in`initialize'", "D:/ELK/logstash-6.4.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:22:in `initialize'", "D:/ELK/logstash-6.4.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:90:in`initialize'", "D:/ELK/logstash-6.4.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline\_action/create.rb:38:in `execute'", "D:/ELK/logstash-6.4.2/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:309:in`block in converge\_state'"]}

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-multiple-logstash-pipelines-to-work/156530/2 "2018-12-11T18:56:35Z")

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