# Dissect message playground

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dissect-message-playground/268207>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dissect-message-playground/268207 "2021-03-24T12:50:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Catalin\_Dinuta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/catalin_dinuta/32/45305_2.png) [@Catalin\_Dinuta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Catalin_Dinuta)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dissect-message-playground/268207/1 "2021-03-24T12:50:53Z")

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Hi community,

I searched some playground for dissecting a log message but I was unable to find it, and so I always receive dissect error.

The filebeat configuration is:

```auto
filebeat.inputs:
  - type: log
    paths:
      - /home/auto/instroot/*.log
    tail_files: true
    recursive_glob.enabled: true
# processors:
# - dissect:
# tokenizer: '%{service.date} %{service.time} - %{service.level} [%{service.id}] (%{service.class}) - %{service.message}'
# field: "message"

output.kafka:
  # initial brokers for reading cluster metadata
  hosts: ${KAFKA_CLUSTER}

  # message topic selection + partitioning
  topic: 'mytopic'
  partition.round_robin:
    reachable_only: false

  required_acks: 1
  compression: gzip
  max_message_bytes: 1000000

```

The message example is:

```auto
2021-03-24 12:43:00,632 - WARN [qtp300128885-10294] (TreeLockImpl) - Received a return request for token TreeLock, but it is not outstanding

```

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Slater](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jason_slater/32/63484_2.png) [@Jason\_Slater](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jason_Slater)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dissect-message-playground/268207/2 "2021-04-17T23:57:14Z")

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I found this site for testing dissect patterns:

[https://dissect-tester.jorgelbg.me/](https://dissect-tester.jorgelbg.me/)

the pattern seems to work

 ![Screen Shot 2021-04-17 at 4.56.18 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/3/f3f685fdb96c95faa26931ab45493ec3240e6937.png)

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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 16, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dissect-message-playground/268207/3 "2021-05-16T01:57:27Z")

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