# Filebeat multiline with line breaks

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multiline-with-line-breaks/88105>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [June 2, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multiline-with-line-breaks/88105 "2017-06-02T15:24:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multiline-with-line-breaks/88105/8 "2017-06-06T09:53:48Z")

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I think you need to set a multiline pattern like this:

`multiline.pattern: '.'`

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