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title: Logstash pipelines
description: This content applies to: Elasticsearch Observability Security On the Logstash Pipelines management page, you can control multiple Logstash instances and...
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  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
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# Logstash pipelines
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On the **Logstash Pipelines** management page, you can control multiple Logstash instances and pipeline configurations.
![Logstash Pipelines"](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/manage-data/images/serverless-logstash-pipelines-management.png)

On the Logstash side, you must enable configuration management and register Logstash to use the centrally managed pipeline configurations.
<important>
  After you configure Logstash to use centralized pipeline management, you can no longer specify local pipeline configurations. The `pipelines.yml` file and settings such as `path.config` and `config.string` are inactive when centralized pipeline management is enabled.
</important>


## Manage pipelines

1. [Configure centralized pipeline management](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/logstash/tree/main/reference/configuring-centralized-pipelines).
2. To add a new pipeline, go to the **Logstash Pipelines** management page using the navigation menu or the [global search field](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/find-apps-and-objects).
3. Click **Create pipeline**.
4. Provide the following details, then click **Create and deploy**.
   <definitions>
   <definition term="Pipeline ID">
   A name that uniquely identifies the pipeline. This is the ID that you used when you configured centralized pipeline management and specified a list of pipeline IDs in the `xpack.management.pipeline.id` setting.
   </definition>
   <definition term="Description">
   A description of the pipeline configuration. This information is for your use.
   </definition>
   <definition term="Pipeline">
   The pipeline configuration. You can treat the editor like any other editor. You don’t have to worry about whitespace or indentation.
   </definition>
   <definition term="Pipeline workers">
   The number of parallel workers used to run the filter and output stages of the pipeline.
   </definition>
   <definition term="Pipeline batch size">
   The maximum number of events an individual worker thread collects before executing filters and outputs.
   </definition>
   <definition term="Pipeline batch delay">
   Time in milliseconds to wait for each event before sending an undersized batch to pipeline workers.
   </definition>
   <definition term="Queue type">
   The internal queueing model for event buffering. Options are `memory` for in-memory queueing and `persisted` for disk-based acknowledged queueing.
   </definition>
   <definition term="Queue max bytes">
   The total capacity of the queue when persistent queues are enabled.
   </definition>
   <definition term="Queue checkpoint writes">
   The maximum number of events written before a checkpoint is forced when persistent queues are enabled.
   </definition>
   </definitions>

To delete one or more pipelines, select their checkboxes then click **Delete**.
For more information about pipeline behavior, go to [Centralized Pipeline Management](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/logstash/tree/main/reference/logstash-centralized-pipeline-management#_pipeline_behavior).