# Filebeat multi-line pattern splitting events

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multi-line-pattern-splitting-events/167791>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [February 11, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multi-line-pattern-splitting-events/167791 "2019-02-11T05:46:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![dinesh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dinesh1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dinesh1)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multi-line-pattern-splitting-events/167791/1 "2019-02-11T05:46:05Z")

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Hi Team

my logs looks like

2018-01-24 16:00:00,487 INFO (testAdapter.java:156) - IP Address : 192.168.0.7  
2018-01-24 16:00:00,487 INFO (testAdapter.java:156) - eureka access successfull  
2018-01-24 16:00:00,487 INFO (testAdapter.java:156) - eureka connected  
2018-01-24 16:00:00,495 INFO (testAdapter.java:156) - connection successfull 121

**Iam getting 2 events instead of one with file beat multiline pattern as shown below**

multiline.pattern: 'IP Address'  
multiline.negate: true  
multiline.match: after  
multiline.flush\_pattern: 'connection successfull'

**Kibana output**

message:2018-01-24 16:00:00,487 INFO (testAdapter.java:156) - IP Address : 192.168.0.7  
2018-01-24 16:00:00,487 INFO (testAdapter.java:156) - eureka access successfull  
2018-01-24 16:00:00,487 INFO (testAdapter.java:156) - eureka connected

meaasage:2018-01-24 16:00:00,495 INFO (testAdapter.java:156) - connection successfull 121

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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:** [February 11, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multi-line-pattern-splitting-events/167791/2 "2019-02-11T23:07:37Z")

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What if you try this?

```auto
multiline.pattern: 'IP Address'
multiline.negate: true
multiline.match: after

```

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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 12, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multi-line-pattern-splitting-events/167791/3 "2019-03-12T01:07:42Z")

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