# How many pipelines can at max be configured in pipelines.yml

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-pipelines-can-at-max-be-configured-in-pipelines-yml/193920>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-pipelines-can-at-max-be-configured-in-pipelines-yml/193920 "2019-08-06T05:09:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![bharatwaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@bharatwaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bharatwaj)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-pipelines-can-at-max-be-configured-in-pipelines-yml/193920/1 "2019-08-06T05:09:06Z")

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I wish to know the maximum number of pipelines that can be successfully configured in pipelines.yml

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-pipelines-can-at-max-be-configured-in-pipelines-yml/193920/2 "2019-08-06T07:00:26Z")

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I do not think there is any fixed limit, but each pipeline will not see a number of threads so at some point you are likely to run into issues around context switching.

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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:** [September 3, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-pipelines-can-at-max-be-configured-in-pipelines-yml/193920/3 "2019-09-03T07:00:26Z")

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