# Map Files to specific Ingest Pipelines
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-files-to-specific-ingest-pipelines/55063
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 8, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-files-to-specific-ingest-pipelines/55063 "2016-07-08T15:18:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sirsteve](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sirsteve)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-files-to-specific-ingest-pipelines/55063/1 "2016-07-08T15:18:07Z")
Hi,
I'm playing around with the new Elastic5 products and am interested in using the ingest node feature with Filebeat as the agent. I have a server that runs several applications with different log files/formats and it seems that per Filebeat agent you can only define a single Elasticsearch output that references a single pipeline.
It would be nice if it was possible to define a mapping of log files to output pipelines instead of having to maintain one big pipeline containing all of the grok patterns. I feel it could get messy trying to keep track of all of the patterns and which application's logs they are matching.
Something obvious I am missing or will I have to maintain a large list of grok patterns in one pipeline?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-files-to-specific-ingest-pipelines/55063/2 "2016-07-08T15:27:12Z")
You're not missing anything, it's hard to use when there are a lot of patterns at the moment. We plan to do something about this problem before we release 5.0.
I realized we don't have an issue for this in our repo yet. Could you please [open one](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new)? Thanks
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### Author:  [@sirsteve](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sirsteve)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-files-to-specific-ingest-pipelines/55063/3 "2016-07-08T15:32:17Z")
Thanks
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-files-to-specific-ingest-pipelines/55063/4 "2016-07-08T15:40:51Z")