# eWAS grok and multiline parsing
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ewas-grok-and-multiline-parsing/81540
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [April 6, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ewas-grok-and-multiline-parsing/81540 "2017-04-06T21:17:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@sam281](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sam281)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ewas-grok-and-multiline-parsing/81540/1 "2017-04-06T21:17:01Z")
Can somebody help me with multi line parsing of an eWAS (embedded Websphere Application Server) application log messages which looks something like below. And the log has single line events as well when its not java stack traces. how to handle both in logstash? Thanks.
[4/5/17 21:45:48:034 EDT] 000000bc exception E com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.ldap.LdapConnection search(String, String, Object[], SearchControls)
com.ibm.websphere.wim.exception.WIMSystemException: CWWIM4520E The 'javax.naming.NamingException: LDAP response read timed out, timeout used:20000ms.; remaining name 'OU=TPC,DC=vicomdemo,DC=local'; resolved object com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx@19b18ec6' naming exception occurred during processing.
at com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.ldap.LdapConnection.search(LdapConnection.java:2953)
at com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.ldap.LdapConnection.checkSearchCache(LdapConnection.java:2783)
at com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.ldap.LdapConnection.search(LdapConnection.java:2973)
at com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.ldap.LdapConnection.searchEntities(LdapConnection.java:3194)
at com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.ldap.LdapAdapter.search(LdapAdapter.java:3314)
at com.ibm.ws.wim.ProfileManager.searchRepository(ProfileManager.java:5279)
at com.ibm.ws.wim.ProfileManager.searchImpl(ProfileManager.java:1210)
at com.ibm.ws.wim.ProfileManager.genericProfileManagerMethod(ProfileManager.java:355)
at com.ibm.ws.wim.ProfileManager.search(ProfileManager.java:447)
at com.ibm.websphere.wim.ServiceProvider.search(ServiceProvider.java:471)
at com.ibm.websphere.wim.client.LocalServiceProvider.search(LocalServiceProvider.java:393)
at com.ibm.tivoli.ncw.dci.security.dash.VMMGroups$1.run(VMMGroups.java:119)
at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAs(ContextManagerImpl.java:5453)
at com.ibm.ws.security.auth.ContextManagerImpl.runAsSystem(ContextManagerImpl.java:5579)
at com.ibm.tivoli.ncw.dci.security.dash.VMMGroups.groupExists(VMMGroups.java:104)
at com.ibm.tivoli.ncw.dci.security.dash.FacadeVMMDelegator.groupExists(FacadeVMMDelegator.java:144)
at com.ibm.tivoli.ncw.dci.security.dash.DCISecurityFacadeImpl.getGroupPrincipalName(DCISecurityFacadeImpl.java:645)
at com.ibm.tivoli.ncw.dci.security.dash.DCISecurityFacadeImpl.getGroupsInRoleAsCollection(DCISecurityFacadeImpl.java:282)
at com.ibm.tivoli.ncw.dci.security.dash.DCISecurityFacadeImpl.getDCIUsersInRole(DCISecurityFacadeImpl.java:592)
at com.micromuse.ncw.acl.NCWUserManager.getDCIUsersInRole(NCWUserManager.java:236)
at com.ibm.tivoli.ncw.security.vmm.NCOSSyncWorker.syncVMMCredentials(NCOSSyncWorker.java:326)
at com.ibm.tivoli.ncw.security.vmm.NCOSSyncWorker.run(NCOSSyncWorker.java:193)
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ewas-grok-and-multiline-parsing/81540/2 "2017-04-07T05:26:57Z")
There are a couple of examples in the documentation that cover this case: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/multiline.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/multiline.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ewas-grok-and-multiline-parsing/81540/3 "2017-05-05T05:30:47Z")
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