diff --git a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/DistributionOutlierPipeline.java b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/DistributionOutlierPipeline.java
index 316417b75b..f2b09cf8ab 100644
--- a/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/DistributionOutlierPipeline.java
+++ b/livingatlas/pipelines/src/main/java/au/org/ala/pipelines/beam/DistributionOutlierPipeline.java
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ public void processElement(ProcessContext c) {
         "Write to file",
         AvroIO.write(DistributionOutlierRecord.class)
             .to(outputPath + "/outlier")
+            .withoutSharding()
             .withSuffix(".avro"));
 
     log.info("Running the pipeline");