# Filtering log file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-log-file/122029
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 1, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-log-file/122029 "2018-03-01T10:09:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@joshi12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshi12)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-log-file/122029/1 "2018-03-01T10:09:37Z")
I have inserted a database log file into elasticsearch and viewed in kibana, now when i search for a error it justs matches those lines and displays , but i want the matched line and also the next consecutive lines of the error . All the consecutive lines will have the same code which is embed in those lines . so is there any way that i can retrieve those lines without typing the code in the searchbox of kibana.
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### Author:  [@Eswar\_Kumar\_Musiboin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eswar_Kumar_Musiboin)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-log-file/122029/2 "2018-03-01T12:44:56Z")
please provide matching error line and consecutive lines example. without these its incomplete to suggest.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2018, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtering-log-file/122029/4 "2018-03-30T10:30:14Z")
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