# Config Err
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-err/131077
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [May 8, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-err/131077 "2018-05-08T22:43:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@naveensk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naveensk)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-err/131077/1 "2018-05-08T22:43:55Z")
I just started working with ELK stack in my virtual box, below errors are not clear to me to debug.
my csv file :
```
1,"pg100","dg101",2,"2016-01-01 00:29:24","2016-01-01 00:39:36",1
2,"pg100","dg2002",2,"2016-01-02 20:31:43","2016-01-02 20:42:31",1
3,"pg100","dg3903",2,"2016-01-05 00:24:16","2016-01-05 00:32:26",1
4,"pg100","dg904",1,"2016-01-07 12:36:47","2016-01-07 12:46:33",1
5,"pg100","dg2805",2,"2016-01-09 12:36:10","2016-01-09 12:47:27",1>
```
and i tried to logstash config file as :
```
input
{
file
{
path => "/opt/elk/data/gt.csv"
start_position => "beginning"
sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
}
}
filter
{
csv
{
separator = ","
columns => ["gt_id", "pid", "did", "vid", "created_at","modified_at","amount"]
}
mutate { convert => ["amount" => "float"] }
}
output
{
elasticsearch{
hosts => "localhost"
index => "gt"
document_type => "sample"
}
stdout{}
```
}
the error info :
```
Failed to execute action {:action=>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline_id:main,
:exception=>"LogStash::ConfigurationError", :message=>"Expected one of #, => at line 15, column 12
(byte 157) after filter\n{\n\tcsv \n\t{\n\tseparator ", :backtrace=>["/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-
core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:42:in `compile_imperative'", "/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-
core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:50:in `compile_graph'", "/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-
core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:12:in `block in compile_sources'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:2486:in
`map'", "/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:11:in `compile_sources'",
"/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:51:in `initialize'", "/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-
core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:169:in `initialize'", "/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-
core/lib/logstash/pipeline_action/create.rb:40:in `execute'", "/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-
core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:315:in `block in converge_state'", "/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-
core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:141:in `with_pipelines'", "/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-
core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:312:in `block in converge_state'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in `each'",
"/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:299:in `converge_state'",
"/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:166:in `block in converge_state_and_update'",
"/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:141:in `with_pipelines'",
"/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:164:in `converge_state_and_update'",
"/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:90:in `execute'", "/opt/elk/logstash/logstash-
core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:348:in `block in execute'",
"/opt/elk/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/stud-0.0.23/lib/stud/task.rb:24:in `block in
initialize'"]}
```
---
### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-err/131077/2 "2018-05-09T00:40:31Z")
> [@naveensk](#):
>
> Expected one of #, =\> at line 15, column 12
> (byte 157) after filter\n{\n\tcsv \n\t{\n\tseparator "
Open your configuration file and go to line 15. You will find
```auto
separator = ","
```
Column 12 there the first double quote. It is trying to tell you that it wants to see
```auto
separator => ","
```
---
### Author:  [@naveensk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naveensk)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-err/131077/3 "2018-05-09T02:17:11Z")
Awesome , its working
```
mutate { convert => ["amount" => "float"] }
```
also need to be
```
mutate { convert => ["amount", "float"] }
```
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### Author:  [@Jenni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jenni)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-err/131077/4 "2018-05-09T06:49:51Z")
... or `mutate { convert => {"amount" => "float"} }`😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-err/131077/5 "2018-06-06T06:49:59Z")
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