# Is it possible to create a master conf file and "overrides"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-master-conf-file-and-overrides/126699>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 4, 2018, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-master-conf-file-and-overrides/126699 "2018-04-04T08:42:14Z")\
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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:** [April 4, 2018, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-master-conf-file-and-overrides/126699/2 "2018-04-04T08:46:57Z")

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> I would like to create a single conf file as a skeleton file, and then have each index "inherit" this file and then only set the input path and output index-name.

Logstash has nothing built-in for this.

See [Recommended way to maintain multiple logstash output plugin configuration - #2 by magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-way-to-maintain-multiple-logstash-output-plugin-configuration/126678/2) for a recent very similar question.

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