# Exclude\_lines per file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-lines-per-file/152129
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 11, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-lines-per-file/152129 "2018-10-11T21:31:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Bkt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bkt)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-lines-per-file/152129/1 "2018-10-11T21:31:40Z")
Hello,
I have a filebeat which has 2 files, I would like to have exclude lines different for each one, is it possible to add exclude\_lines per path?
the potential config is as below i.e. for access.log I want to exclude different lines while allowing the same lines to go through from the weblogic.log
Thanks for taking the time to read this,
```
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
enabled: true
paths:
- /scratch/tmp/elk_docker/access.log
exclude_lines:['\/health(\/[a-z]*)*\t200', '(?:.*registry)(?:.*\t200)']
- /scratch/tmp/elk_docker/weblogic.log
exclude_lines:['BEA-000628', 'BEA-001128', '\/authorization\/rest\/[v0-9\.]+\/auth\/query\t200']
```
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-lines-per-file/152129/2 "2018-10-15T22:41:25Z")
No, that is not possible. This is not even valid YAML. But you can configure 2 inputs instead of 2 paths:
```auto
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
paths: [/scratch/tmp/elk_docker/access.log]
exclude_lines: ['\/health(\/[a-z]*)*\t200', '(?:.*registry)(?:.*\t200)']
- type: log
paths: [/scratch/tmp/elk_docker/weblogic.log]
exclude_lines: ['BEA-000628', 'BEA-001128', '\/authorization\/rest\/[v0-9\.]+\/auth\/query\t200']
```
As you use docker, this looks like a good use-case for docker auto-discovery.
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### Author:  [@Bkt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bkt)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-lines-per-file/152129/3 "2018-10-17T16:26:54Z")
Thanks Steffen, yes it's an invalid yaml, was just checking if something like it was possible. I was trying to avoid different file beat processes. Seems that's the route I will have to take.
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-lines-per-file/152129/4 "2018-10-18T20:55:24Z")
Why you need 2 filebeat processes? My sample configuration shows how it can be done within one filebeat process, just with 2 input configurations.
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### Author:  [@Bkt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bkt)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-lines-per-file/152129/5 "2018-11-05T16:41:45Z")
Thanks! I misread the previous answer. This works as expected
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exclude-lines-per-file/152129/6 "2018-12-03T16:41:50Z")
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