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title: Pipeline options
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# Pipeline options

This page provides information about pipeline configuration options in Data Prepper. 

## General pipeline options

Option | Required | Type | Description
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workers | No | Integer | Essentially the number of application threads. As a starting point for your use case, try setting this value to the number of CPU cores on the machine. Default is 1.
delay | No | Integer | Amount of time in milliseconds workers wait between buffer read attempts. Default is 3,000.