Logstash error: Cannot create pipeline

[CDR (Colton)]

I am running logstash using docker. When I ran my docker-compose up I got this error:

13:31:16.723 [LogStash::Runner] ERROR logstash.agent - Cannot create pipeline {:reason=>"Expected one of #, input, filter, output at line 1, column 1 (byte 1) after "}

When I run this same config file without using docker and using logstash on windows I do not get this error. Here is the part of my config file I believe it is talking about.

input{
	file{
		path => "/config-dir/data/**/admin_ui*.csv"
		start_position => beginning
		ignore_older => 0
		sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
		type => "csv"
	}	
	file{
		path => "/config-dir/data/**/alarm[0-9]*.prn"
		start_position => beginning
		sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
		ignore_older => 0
        type => "alarmprn"
		codec => plain{charset => "ANSI_X3.4-1968"}
	}

I am not entirely sure where exactly it is expecting the #.

Thanks!

[magnusbaeck (Magnus Bäck)]

The error message could indicate that you have a garbage character at the very beginning of the file. Maybe a byte order mark? Check in a hex editor.