# How to do source to "multi target" translate in logstash?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-source-to-multi-target-translate-in-logstash/283623>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 8, 2021, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-source-to-multi-target-translate-in-logstash/283623 "2021-09-08T08:12:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![kelk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kelk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kelk)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-source-to-multi-target-translate-in-logstash/283623/1 "2021-09-08T08:12:50Z")

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We have got a CSV lookup as follows

```auto
EmpID,EmpName,EmpSalary,EmpDepartment
1001,Bob,10000,XX
1002,Joe,20000,YY
1003,Foo,30000,ZZ

```

and in Logstash, we need to translate the `EmpID` to both EmpName & EmpSalary at the same time. I know we can do it in multiple steps but ideally looking to see if there is a method similar to `lookup` functionality in Splunk to do all in one-step?

Ideally looking for something like below (as below don't work)

```auto
      translate {
        field => "[EmpID]"
        destination => "[EmpName],[EmpSalary],[EmpDepartment]"
        dictionary_path => "my_emp_file.csv"
        override => true
      }

```

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-source-to-multi-target-translate-in-logstash/283623/2 "2021-09-08T14:10:23Z")

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See [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translate-plugin-using-csv/174762/2) and read through [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translate-filter-plugin/167971) thread.

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**Author:** ![kelk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kelk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kelk)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-source-to-multi-target-translate-in-logstash/283623/3 "2021-09-10T10:23:10Z")

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thanks Badger. This solves as a workaround, but would like to have a multi-destination option. Will raise it as a feature request in logstash github

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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 8, 2021, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-source-to-multi-target-translate-in-logstash/283623/4 "2021-10-08T10:24:07Z")

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