# Conditional pipeline

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-pipeline/181423>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-pipeline/181423 "2019-05-16T14:11:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dkuiate1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@dkuiate1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dkuiate1)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-pipeline/181423/1 "2019-05-16T14:11:20Z")

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Hello everyone,

I want to apply a specific pipeline if a field exist in the pipeline.yml but i don't know how to figure it out.

For exemple event with the field version1 will be sent to the pipeline 1 and event with the field version2 will be sent to the pipeline 2. Here is my pipeline.yml config

//- pipeline.id: my-pipeline\_1  
path.config: "/Users/dkuiate/logstash-6.6.2/condition1.conf"  
pipeline.workers: 3

- pipeline.id: my-other-pipeline  
path.config: "/Users/dkuiate/logstash-6.6.2/condition2.conf"  
queue.type: persisted

Best regards

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-pipeline/181423/2 "2019-05-16T14:43:49Z")

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You could use pipeline-to-pipeline communications for that. You would probably want to use a [distributor](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/pipeline-to-pipeline.html#distributor-pattern) pattern.

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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:** [June 13, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-pipeline/181423/3 "2019-06-13T14:43:53Z")

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