# Is it possible to give a pipeline.json file path in filebeat.yml file?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-give-a-pipeline-json-file-path-in-filebeat-yml-file/177184>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 17, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-give-a-pipeline-json-file-path-in-filebeat-yml-file/177184 "2019-04-17T04:48:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mohan\_Selvam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mohan_selvam/32/43587_2.png) [@Mohan\_Selvam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohan_Selvam)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-give-a-pipeline-json-file-path-in-filebeat-yml-file/177184/1 "2019-04-17T04:48:24Z")

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I need to add the path of json file instead of pipeline name , so that i can change the pipeline data doing by role apply in chef. is it anyway to do this?

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and i am getting this error : pipeline with id [/etc/filebeat/pipeline.json] does not exist

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-give-a-pipeline-json-file-path-in-filebeat-yml-file/177184/2 "2019-04-17T15:52:32Z")

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This is not possible today. If you have a GitHub account, I would suggest creating an enhancement request issue for this feature: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new?template=feature-request.md](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new?template=feature-request.md).

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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:** [May 15, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-give-a-pipeline-json-file-path-in-filebeat-yml-file/177184/3 "2019-05-15T15:52:36Z")

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