# Getting parsing errors for csv filter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-parsing-errors-for-csv-filter/149440>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 21, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-parsing-errors-for-csv-filter/149440 "2018-09-21T11:35:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![mohsin\_khan\_adp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@mohsin\_khan\_adp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohsin_khan_adp)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-parsing-errors-for-csv-filter/149440/1 "2018-09-21T11:35:35Z")

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Below is my header and record i am trying to push to elastic search. I am getting getting parsing errors and i could not ship it.

can you help me here ?

HEADER1|HEADER2|HEADER3|HEADER4|HEADER5|HEADER6|HEADER7|HEADER8|HEADER9|HEADER10|HEADER11|HEADER12|HEADER13|HEADER14|HEADER15|HEADER16|HEADER17|HEADER18|HEADER19|HEADER20|HEADER21|HEADER22|HEADER23|HEADER24|HEADER25|HEADER26|HEADER27|HEADER28|HEADER29|HEADER30|HEADER31|HEADER32|HEADER33|HEADER34|HEADER35|HEADER36|HEADER37|HEADER38|HEADER39|HEADER40|HEADER41|HEADER42|HEADER43|HEADER44|HEADER45|HEADER46|HEADER47|HEADER48|HEADER49|HEADER50|HEADER51|HEADER52|HEADER53|HEADER54|HEADER55|HEADER56|HEADER57|HEADER58|HEADER59|HEADER60|HEADER61|HEADER62|HEADER63|HEADER64|HEADER65|HEADER66|HEADER67|HEADER68|HEADER69|HEADER70|HEADER71|HEADER72|HEADER73|HEADER74|HEADER75|HEADER76|HEADER77|HEADER78|HEADER79|HEADER80|HEADER81|HEADER82|HEADER83|HEADER84|HEADER85|HEADER86  
121|2|2018-09-19 07:01:19|abcd||0370|Auto|5120370|364003921|Days\_prior\_Auto|FIE|M|7|eams|k|k|Service|service||95|Drior|||to||1112|||||||||fully.|141||||||||||2018-09-19 07:01:19|1|||141|||||||EVEN|N||||||||"{"firstname":"R","derno":"001","delie":"","ate":"18/09/18","title":"Mrs","toid":"141","flex8":"","fl":"","x6":"","key":"abcde","fl":"","fl":"22/09/18","surname":"GIz","ink":"","abcd":"Abcde","yyyy":"king","fl":"","abcd":\123","driver":"","fl":"","fl":"","art":"","fle":"","va":"","abcd":"true","no":""}"|||0|0|0|0||||||||||||||

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#This is the filter config i am using.  
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filter {

```
    csv{
            separator => "|"
            skip_header => "true"
            columns => [HEADER1|HEADER2|HEADER3|HEADER4|HEADER5|HEADER6|HEADER7|HEADER8|HEADER9|HEADER10|HEADER11|HEADER12|HEADER13|HEADER14|HEADER15|HEADER16|HEADER17|HEADER18|HEADER19|HEADER20|HEADER21|HEADER22|HEADER23|HEADER24|HEADER25|HEADER26|HEADER27|HEADER28|HEADER29|HEADER30|HEADER31|HEADER32|HEADER33|HEADER34|HEADER35|HEADER36|HEADER37|HEADER38|HEADER39|HEADER40|HEADER41|HEADER42|HEADER43|HEADER44|HEADER45|HEADER46|HEADER47|HEADER48|HEADER49|HEADER50|HEADER51|HEADER52|HEADER53|HEADER54|HEADER55|HEADER56|HEADER57|HEADER58|HEADER59|HEADER60|HEADER61|HEADER62|HEADER63|HEADER64|HEADER65|HEADER66|HEADER67|HEADER68|HEADER69|HEADER70|HEADER71|HEADER72|HEADER73|HEADER74|HEADER75|HEADER76|HEADER77|HEADER78|HEADER79|HEADER80|HEADER81|HEADER82|HEADER83|HEADER84|HEADER85|HEADER86]

            }

    mutate{
            remove_field => ["path"]
            replace => { "message" => "shipped_logs" }
            }

```

}  
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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-parsing-errors-for-csv-filter/149440/2 "2018-09-24T18:25:12Z")

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You're setting the `columns` option wrong. See the example at [https://qbox.io/blog/import-csv-elasticsearch-logstash-sincedb](https://qbox.io/blog/import-csv-elasticsearch-logstash-sincedb).

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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:** [October 22, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-parsing-errors-for-csv-filter/149440/3 "2018-10-22T18:25:17Z")

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