# Filebeat sets the multi-line mode, the unmatched rows are also multi-line, the match result is abnormal

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sets-the-multi-line-mode-the-unmatched-rows-are-also-multi-line-the-match-result-is-abnormal/239090>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [June 29, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sets-the-multi-line-mode-the-unmatched-rows-are-also-multi-line-the-match-result-is-abnormal/239090 "2020-06-29T10:12:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![lklkxcxc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@lklkxcxc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lklkxcxc)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sets-the-multi-line-mode-the-unmatched-rows-are-also-multi-line-the-match-result-is-abnormal/239090/1 "2020-06-29T10:12:59Z")

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set multiline filebeat config:  
multiline.pattern: '^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}|^[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}'  
multiline.negate: true  
multiline.match: after

As a result, the following log was matched as multiple lines into one record:  
127.0.0.1 - [127.0.0.1] - - [29/Jun/2020:09:33:15 +0000] "GET /follow/followmanager/list/1/10?planStatus=0 HTTP/1.1" 200 792 "[http://localhost:8080/](http://localhost:8080/)" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.61 Safari/537.36" 1107 0.133 [frontend-8112] 10.233.121.218:8112 4371 0.133 200 7519892edaadd50a0d0e0eeeb1bc4649  
127.0.0.1 - [127.0.0.1] - - [29/Jun/2020:09:33:15 +0000] "GET /follow/followmanager/group/count HTTP/1.1" 200 156 "[http://localhost:8080/](http://localhost:8080/)" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.61 Safari/537.36" 1071 0.025 [frontend-8112] 10.233.121.218:8112 218 0.025 200 604d073cfb6ed27dd193d0729c245978

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**Author:** ![lklkxcxc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@lklkxcxc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lklkxcxc)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sets-the-multi-line-mode-the-unmatched-rows-are-also-multi-line-the-match-result-is-abnormal/239090/2 "2020-07-08T06:33:09Z")

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Looking forward to reply

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**Author:** ![kvch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kvch/32/72058_2.png) [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sets-the-multi-line-mode-the-unmatched-rows-are-also-multi-line-the-match-result-is-abnormal/239090/3 "2020-07-09T14:24:22Z")

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How do the original logs look you want to concatenate?

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**Author:** ![lklkxcxc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@lklkxcxc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lklkxcxc)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sets-the-multi-line-mode-the-unmatched-rows-are-also-multi-line-the-match-result-is-abnormal/239090/4 "2020-07-21T10:09:33Z")

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@kvch this kibana log show log was mark multiline tag:

 ![1595326102590](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/b/1b98a9997f7c6d9bf34c8beddb4694f8da0587d1.jpeg)  
The original log is all single line ：  
 ![1595409259010](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/9/291c5abf508820de0a48e1b252dcb737fcb228a8.jpeg)

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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:** [August 18, 2020, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sets-the-multi-line-mode-the-unmatched-rows-are-also-multi-line-the-match-result-is-abnormal/239090/5 "2020-08-18T12:09:42Z")

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