# Failed to load Pipelines.yml file in windows enviromment!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-load-pipelines-yml-file-in-windows-enviromment/124508>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 19, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-load-pipelines-yml-file-in-windows-enviromment/124508 "2018-03-19T09:04:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![naveen\_K.N](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8e8cbc/32.png) [@naveen\_K.N](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naveen_K.N)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-load-pipelines-yml-file-in-windows-enviromment/124508/1 "2018-03-19T09:04:09Z")

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Hi Elastic Team,

im trying to create multiple pipelines using configuration in pipelines.yml file and hence running logstash in command prompt as " bin/logstash "  
so why am i getting error: Failed to read pipelines yaml file. location: C:/users/xxx/downloads/logstash-6.1.1/config/pipelines.yml

any help/reference on this will be much appreciated!  
Thanks,  
Naveena K N

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**Author:** ![crizz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb9ed0/32.png) [@crizz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/crizz)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-load-pipelines-yml-file-in-windows-enviromment/124508/2 "2018-03-21T08:37:34Z")

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Hi Naveena,

I am having the same problem as you. As a workaround, you can refer to this bug issue in GitHub:

> <https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/9254>

Chris

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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:** [April 18, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-load-pipelines-yml-file-in-windows-enviromment/124508/3 "2018-04-18T08:38:19Z")

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