# Starting an Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline
Starting a pipeline

You always start an OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline beginning with a pipeline that's already in the stopped state. The pipeline keeps its configuration settings such as capacity limits, network settings, and log publishing options.

Restarting a pipeline usually takes several minutes.

## Console


**To start a pipeline**

1. Sign in to the Amazon OpenSearch Service console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/aos/osis/home](https://console.aws.amazon.com/aos/osis/home#osis/ingestion-pipelines). You'll be on the Pipelines page.

1. Choose a pipeline. You can perform the start operation from this page, or navigate to the details page for the pipeline that you want to start.

1.  For **Actions**, choose **Start pipeline**. 

## AWS CLI


To start a pipeline by using the AWS CLI, call the [start-pipeline](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/osis/start-pipeline.html) command with the following parameters: 
+ `--pipeline-name` – the name of the pipeline.

**Example**  

```
aws osis start-pipeline --pipeline-name my-pipeline
```

## OpenSearch Ingestion API


To start an OpenSearch Ingestion pipeline using the OpenSearch Ingestion API, call the [StartPipeline](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/latest/APIReference/API_osis_StartPipeline.html) operation with the following parameter: 
+ `PipelineName` – the name of the pipeline.