# Logstash not running when configured with multiple pipline yaml configuration file

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-running-when-configured-with-multiple-pipline-yaml-configuration-file/232594>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-running-when-configured-with-multiple-pipline-yaml-configuration-file/232594 "2020-05-14T09:21:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![balavenkatesh3322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@balavenkatesh3322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balavenkatesh3322)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-running-when-configured-with-multiple-pipline-yaml-configuration-file/232594/1 "2020-05-14T09:21:20Z")

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This is my pipeline configuration file -

> ```
> - pipeline.id: my-pipeline_1
> path.config: "C:\\logstash\\logstash-7.6.1\\config\\mongodata_non_mcn.conf"
> - pipeline.id: my-other-pipeline
> path.config: "C:\\logstash\\logstash-7.6.1\\config\\mongodata_comment_list.conf"
> 
> ```

When i run this file using below commant i got this error:-  
**\>logstash -f \logstash\logstash-7.6.1\config\pipelines.yml**

**Error :-**  
[2020-05-14T06:15:58,741][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:action=\>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline\_id:main, :exception=\>"LogStash::ConfigurationError", :message=\>"Expected one of [\t\r\n], "#", "input", "filter", "output" at line 1, column 1 (byte 1)", :backtrace=\>["C:/logstash/logstash-7.6.1/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:47:in `compile_imperative'", "C:/logstash/logstash-7.6.1/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:55:in `compile\_graph'", "C:/logstash/logstash-7.6.1/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:17:in `block in compile_sources'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:2580:in `map'", "C:/logstash/logstash-7.6.1/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:14:in `compile_sources'", "org/logstash/execution/AbstractPipelineExt.java:161:in `initialize'", "org/logstash/execution/JavaBasePipelineExt.java:47:in `initialize'", "C:/logstash/logstash-7.6.1/logstash-core/lib/logstash/java_pipeline.rb:27:in `initialize'", "C:/logstash/logstash-7.6.1/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline\_action/create.rb:36:in `execute'", "C:/logstash/logstash-7.6.1/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:326:in `block in converge\_state'"]}

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**Author:** ![ptamba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@ptamba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ptamba)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-running-when-configured-with-multiple-pipline-yaml-configuration-file/232594/2 "2020-05-14T12:16:34Z")

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if you run logstash with -f, it ignores pipelines.yml as per the [docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/multiple-pipelines.html)

you should put pipelines.yml in path.config then run logstash without arguments. path.settings defaults to `{extract.path}/config` when you use .zip or .tar.gz installer. see [directory layout](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/dir-layout.html)

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**Author:** ![balavenkatesh3322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@balavenkatesh3322](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balavenkatesh3322)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-running-when-configured-with-multiple-pipline-yaml-configuration-file/232594/3 "2020-05-14T13:20:09Z")

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@ptamba Thanks for your reply. your solution is working fine.. Thanks!!

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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:** [June 11, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-running-when-configured-with-multiple-pipline-yaml-configuration-file/232594/4 "2020-06-11T13:20:09Z")

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