diff --git a/logstash/pipelines/zeek/1029_zeek_intel.conf b/logstash/pipelines/zeek/1029_zeek_intel.conf
index da376c60e..0d3591b3c 100644
--- a/logstash/pipelines/zeek/1029_zeek_intel.conf
+++ b/logstash/pipelines/zeek/1029_zeek_intel.conf
@@ -42,14 +42,29 @@ filter {
       }
     }
 
-    # "sources" is handled differently because of some weirdness between creating the meta.source field in the
-    #   intel file (which seems to be a string) and the sources field in intel.log (which is a set of string)
-    #   so we're doing our own | pseudo-delimiter to work around it.
     mutate { id => "mutate_split_zeek_intel_commas"
-             split => { "[zeek_cols][sources]" => "|"
-                        "[zeek_cols][matched]" => ","
+             split => { "[zeek_cols][matched]" => ","
                         "[zeek_cols][cif_tags]" => "," } }
 
+    # "sources" is handled differently because of some weirdness between creating the meta.source field in the
+    #   intel file (which seems to be a string) and the sources field in intel.log (which is a set of string)
+    #   so we're doing our own | pseudo-delimiter to work around it. Further complicating things, in JSON
+    #   "sources" is already an array, and in TSV it's a string.
+    ruby {
+      id => "ruby_intel_sources_split"
+      code => "
+        if (sources = event.get('[zeek_cols][sources]')) then
+          if sources.is_a?(Array)
+            # sources is an array already (like from JSON), expand out the elements that may be pipe-separated
+            sources.map! { |source| source.to_s.split('|') }.flatten!
+          else
+            # sources is not an array, split on pipe
+            sources = sources.to_s.split('|')
+          end
+          event.set('[zeek_cols][sources]', sources) unless sources.nil? or (sources.length == 0)
+        end"
+    }
+
   }
 
 } # end Filter