# Filter unito too large
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-unito-too-large/185067
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 10, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-unito-too-large/185067 "2019-06-10T22:24:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@df5732f0e4bff6b59465](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/df5732f0e4bff6b59465)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-unito-too-large/185067/1 "2019-06-10T22:24:19Z")
Hello. Now, in my filter block, there are 480 lines of code, is it possible to separate it?
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### Author:  [@staodd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/staodd)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-unito-too-large/185067/2 "2019-06-10T22:39:48Z")
What do you mean? Separate as in???
Separate files?? Separate filter blocks??
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### Author:  [@df5732f0e4bff6b59465](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/df5732f0e4bff6b59465)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-unito-too-large/185067/3 "2019-06-10T22:54:59Z")
Separate filter blocks, to other file.
And annotate like that
filter{
if tag = "life"
filter by file1.conf
else
filter by file2.conf
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-unito-too-large/185067/4 "2019-06-11T00:38:06Z")
Logstash concatenates all the configuration files into a single configuration string. There is no include operation as such (although you could implement it with something like m4). If you want to isolate a set of processing into a different file then pipeline-to-pipeline with a [distributor](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/pipeline-to-pipeline.html#distributor-pattern) pattern might suit you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-unito-too-large/185067/5 "2019-07-09T00:38:07Z")
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