# Errors in while starting Logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-in-while-starting-logstash/117797
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 31, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-in-while-starting-logstash/117797 "2018-01-31T11:42:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@script007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/script007)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-in-while-starting-logstash/117797/1 "2018-01-31T11:42:11Z")
# I feel something is not right in my conf file. Ant help. I am not able to start this conf file. Conf File:
input {
file {
path =\> "/data/es/snmp/stage/snmp.csv"
start\_position =\> "beginning"
sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null"
}
}
filter {
csv {
separator =\> ","
columns =\> ["Date","Time","Block","Name","IP","Device","[Sr.No](http://Sr.No)","Alert Message" ]
}
mutate { merge ==\> ["Date","Time]}
# date { match =\> ["Date", "dd-MMM-YYYY HH:mm:ss"] locale =\> "en" remove\_field =\> ["Date"] } mutate { convert =\> { "Block" =\> "float" } convert =\> { "Name" =\> "float" } convert =\> { "IP" =\> "float" } convert =\> { "Device" =\> "float" } convert =\> { "[Sr.No](http://Sr.No)" =\> "float" } convert =\> { "Alert Message" =\> "float" } } } output { elasticsearch { action =\> "index" hosts =\> ['localhost:9200'] index =\> "alerts" workers =\> 1 } stdout {} }
Error Message
# [2018-01-31T11:40:09,441][INFO][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module\_name=\>"fb\_apache", :directory=\>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/fb\_apache/configuration"} [2018-01-31T11:40:09,448][INFO][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module\_name=\>"netflow", :directory=\>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/netflow/configuration"} [2018-01-31T11:40:09,907][WARN][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified [2018-01-31T11:40:10,148][FATAL][logstash.runner] The given configuration is invalid. Reason: Expected one of #, =\> at line 13, column 16 (byte 248) after filter { csv { separator =\> "," columns =\> ["Date","Time","Block","Name","IP","Device","[Sr.No](http://Sr.No)","Alert Message" ] } mutate { merge
Any help - appreciated.
CS
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-in-while-starting-logstash/117797/2 "2018-01-31T11:45:14Z")
> [@script007](#):
>
> mutate { merge ==\> ["Date","Time]}
Looks like `Time` is missing a closing `"`.
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### Author:  [@script007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/script007)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-in-while-starting-logstash/117797/3 "2018-01-31T11:50:48Z")
Thanks Christian,
I've added the ending ", still errors as below.
=====[2018-01-31T11:47:13,585][INFO][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module\_name=\>"fb\_apache", :directory=\>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/fb\_apache/configuration"}
[2018-01-31T11:47:13,589][INFO][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module\_name=\>"netflow", :directory=\>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/netflow/configuration"}
[2018-01-31T11:47:13,872][WARN][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[2018-01-31T11:47:14,322][INFO][logstash.agent] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=\>9608}
[2018-01-31T11:47:14,406][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:action=\>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline\_id:main, :exception=\>"LogStash::ConfigurationError", :message=\>"Expected one of #, =\> at line 13, column 16 (byte 248) after filter {\ncsv {\nseparator =\> ","\ncolumns =\> ["Date","Time","Block","Name","IP","Device","[Sr.No](http://Sr.No)","Alert Message" ]\n}\nmutate { merge ", :backtrace=\>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:42:in `compile_ast'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:50:in`compile\_imperative'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:54:in `compile_graph'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:12:in`block in compile\_sources'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:2486:in `map'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:11:in`compile\_sources'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:107:in `compile_lir'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:49:in`initialize'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:215:in `initialize'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline_action/create.rb:35:in`execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:335:in `block in converge_state'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:141:in`with\_pipelines'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:332:in `block in converge_state'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in`each'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:319:in `converge_state'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:166:in`block in converge\_state\_and\_update'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:141:in `with_pipelines'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:164:in`converge\_state\_and\_update'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:90:in `execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:362:in`block in execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/stud-0.0.23/lib/stud/task.rb:24:in `block in initialize'"]}
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-in-while-starting-logstash/117797/4 "2018-01-31T11:55:35Z")
> [@script007](#):
>
> Expected one of #, =\> at line 13, column 16 (byte 248) after filter
The error message points you to the line. Looks like you also have a `==>` instead of `=>` which I did not spot before.
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### Author:  [@script007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/script007)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-in-while-starting-logstash/117797/5 "2018-01-31T12:04:36Z")
Spot on... Christian
Both your suggestions are 100% ..
Appreciated your help 🙂
Have a good day.
Regards
CS
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-in-while-starting-logstash/117797/6 "2018-02-28T12:04:44Z")
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