# 2 codec in one filter plugin
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-codec-in-one-filter-plugin/57093
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 3, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-codec-in-one-filter-plugin/57093 "2016-08-03T10:59:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-codec-in-one-filter-plugin/57093/1 "2016-08-03T10:59:27Z")
Hi!
I would like to ask question about filter plugin
I am using logstash 5.0.0 alpha4
I am in a situation where I have to set multiline codec and plain codec in single file module.
This seems to not work since logstash is not recognizing the plain codec.
file {
path =\> ["/var/log/logstash/data/log/g\_02/_/always/_"]
start\_position =\> "beginning"
```
codec => multiline {
pattern => "----------------------\+|Present Rot \[360deg\]|Total Rot \[360deg\] "
negate => false
what => previous
}
codec => plain {
charset => "ISO-8859-1"
}
```
Is my configuration wrong?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-codec-in-one-filter-plugin/57093/2 "2016-08-04T08:37:23Z")
You can't do that, a codec can only apply to a single input.
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### Author:  [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2016, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-codec-in-one-filter-plugin/57093/3 "2016-08-04T08:58:13Z")
@warkolm
Thank you for the reply.
I will use filebeat in front of logstash.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-codec-in-one-filter-plugin/57093/4 "2017-07-06T04:44:56Z")