# After enabling multiline.pattern, filebeat service not starting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-multiline-pattern-filebeat-service-not-starting/176669>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 12, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-multiline-pattern-filebeat-service-not-starting/176669 "2019-04-12T16:21:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bhaskar\_Balapuram](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhaskar_balapuram/32/44049_2.png) [@Bhaskar\_Balapuram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bhaskar_Balapuram)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-multiline-pattern-filebeat-service-not-starting/176669/1 "2019-04-12T16:21:32Z")

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Hi Team,  
There is requirement of shipping multiple lines of logs to elasticsearch. Here is the configuration which i placed in filebeat.yml file.

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- type: docker  
combine\_partial: true  
containers:  
path: "/var/lib/docker/containers"  
stream: "stdout"  
ids:  
- "_"  
multiline.pattern: '._[._((\n._){50})'

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After updating above configurations, filebeat service is not starting. Can you please advice to fix the issue.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,  
Bhaskar.

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-multiline-pattern-filebeat-service-not-starting/176669/2 "2019-04-15T12:35:16Z")

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> [@Bhaskar\_Balapuram](#):
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> After updating above configurations, filebeat service is not starting.

Are you seeing any errors or warnings in the Filebeat logs after trying to restart it?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-enabling-multiline-pattern-filebeat-service-not-starting/176669/3 "2019-05-13T12:44:21Z")

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