# Elasticsearch multiline search

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-multiline-search/119002
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-multiline-search/119002 "2018-02-08T09:17:11Z")
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### Author: ![elasticdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aca169/32.png) [@elasticdude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticdude)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-multiline-search/119002/1 "2018-02-08T09:17:11Z")

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Hi,

Is it possible to do following queries on Elasticsearch?

1. Given Line1 and Line2, find all the line pairs such that Line1 and Line2 are N seconds apart.
2. Return all the log lines where Line1 occurred before Line2

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### Author: ![elasticdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aca169/32.png) [@elasticdude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticdude)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-multiline-search/119002/2 "2018-02-13T19:44:01Z")

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> [@elasticdude](#):
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> Search Line1 and Line2 such that they are within N seconds apart?

Bump

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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: [March 13, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-multiline-search/119002/3 "2018-03-13T19:44:11Z")

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