# Regarding Ingest Pipeline Upload

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-ingest-pipeline-upload/177330>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [April 17, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-ingest-pipeline-upload/177330 "2019-04-17T15:22:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-ingest-pipeline-upload/177330/1 "2019-04-17T15:22:28Z")

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Hi,  
I'm not seeing expected behaviour when uploading logstash ingest pipelines:

```auto
$ filebeat setup --pipelines --modules logstash
Loaded Ingest pipelines

```

However, when I look at the pipelines in elasticsearch I see that plain text pipelines have been uploaded as opposed to json...

How do I get filebeat to setup the json pipelines?

Regards,  
D

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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, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-ingest-pipeline-upload/177330/2 "2019-04-17T17:25:33Z")

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Hi,

This is happening because the default format for the `logstash` module's ingest pipelines is `plaintext`, not `json`. I have a couple of questions that might help me determine the easiest way forward to help you load the `json` pipelines:

1. Is your `logstash` module enabled? You can check by running `filebeat modules list`.

2. If the answer to (1) is yes, then what does your `modules.d/logstash.yml` file look like?

Thanks,

Shaunak

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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-ingest-pipeline-upload/177330/3 "2019-04-17T19:04:13Z")

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I see. The default format for the pipeline upload was set to plain-text. Can this be overridden in the main config?

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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, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-ingest-pipeline-upload/177330/4 "2019-04-17T21:04:52Z")

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Hi, I just figured this out. You can run the following command:

```auto
$ filebeat setup --pipelines --modules logstash -M 'logstash.*.var.format=json'

```

These will load the `json` pipelines instead of the `plaintext` ones for all filesets in the `logstash` module.

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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, 11:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regarding-ingest-pipeline-upload/177330/5 "2019-05-15T23:16:04Z")

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