# Single data source split to different indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-data-source-split-to-different-indexes/215695>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 20, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-data-source-split-to-different-indexes/215695 "2020-01-20T09:22:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![BeMoore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bemoore/32/58724_2.png) [@BeMoore](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BeMoore)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-data-source-split-to-different-indexes/215695/4 "2020-01-22T16:36:43Z")

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Still getting same issues.  
Tired swapping out the pipelines.yml file whilst logstash was still running and its reporting:

```
[2020-01-22T09:33:11,758][DEBUG][logstash.instrument.periodicpoller.jvm] collector name {:name=>"ParNew"}
[2020-01-22T09:33:11,759][DEBUG][logstash.instrument.periodicpoller.jvm] collector name {:name=>"ConcurrentMarkSweep"}
[2020-01-22T09:33:12,816][DEBUG][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Reading pipeline configurations from YAML {:location=>"/etc/logstash/pipelines.yml"}
[2020-01-22T09:33:12,819][ERROR][logstash.config.sourceloader] Could not fetch all the sources {:exception=>LogStash::ConfigurationError, :message=>"Failed to read pipelines yaml file. Location: /etc/logstash/pipelines.yml, Exception: #<Psych::SyntaxError: (<unknown>): could not find expected ':' while scanning a simple key at line 29 column 1>", :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/config/source/multi_local.rb:82:in `read_pipelines_from_yaml'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/config/source/multi_local.rb:67:in `retrieve_yaml_pipelines'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/config/source/multi_local.rb:17:in `pipeline_configs'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/config/source_loader.rb:61:in `block in fetch'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:2579:in `collect'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/config/source_loader.rb:60:in `fetch'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:149:in `converge_state_and_update'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:114:in `block in execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/stud-0.0.23/lib/stud/interval.rb:18:in `interval'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:103:in `execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:369:in `block in execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/stud-0.0.23/lib/stud/task.rb:24:in `block in initialize'"]}
[2020-01-22T09:33:12,822][DEBUG][logstash.agent] Could not fetch the configuration to converge, will retry {:message=>"Failed to read pipelines yaml file. Location: /etc/logstash/pipelines.yml, 

```

Seems its getting stuck on this

`(<unknown>): could not find expected ':'`

Yet

`- pipeline.id: 1st-index`

is perfectly fine.. if i alter the variables and comment out stuff and make it work reading a flat file it parses... so the pipeline object here is workable... which suggests to me that its something previous to this

```
output { pipeline { send_to => ["main-index", "1st-index"] } }

```

IS it maybe that i can't fork this correctly or it parse to main-index, but can't pipe to 1st-index? ( i've altered the pipeline names as well removing the - just in case and that doesn't work

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