# Having an issue enabling proper multiline options for container logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-an-issue-enabling-proper-multiline-options-for-container-logs/256916>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** docker, filebeat\
**Created:** [November 27, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-an-issue-enabling-proper-multiline-options-for-container-logs/256916 "2020-11-27T20:45:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![sloney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@sloney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sloney)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-an-issue-enabling-proper-multiline-options-for-container-logs/256916/1 "2020-11-27T20:45:30Z")

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Currently have these settings enabled, hoping to make all logs that start with a date like: 2020-11-27 to be in their own entry, including java stack traces.

multiline.type: pattern  
multiline.pattern: '^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}'  
multiline.negate: true  
multiline.match: after

The result is lines showing up like this in one entry in Kibana:

2020-11-27 20:03:23.370 [INFO][48] felix/int\_dataplane.go 1245: Applying dataplane updates  
2020-11-27 20:03:23.371 [INFO][48] felix/wireguard.go 578: Wireguard is not enabled  
2020-11-27 20:03:23.371 [INFO][48] felix/table.go 877: Invalidating dataplane cache ipVersion=0x4 reason="refresh timer" table="filter".

Anyone have an idea of how to configure this?

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**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-an-issue-enabling-proper-multiline-options-for-container-logs/256916/2 "2020-11-30T12:36:06Z")

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Hi!

It seems your defined pattern is not correct.  
You can find multiline examples at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/multiline-examples.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/multiline-examples.html) and also a [playground](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/multiline-examples.html#_test_your_regexp_pattern_for_multiline) to exepriment with your patterns.

Please give it a try and let us know!

Thanks!

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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:** [December 28, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-an-issue-enabling-proper-multiline-options-for-container-logs/256916/3 "2020-12-28T14:36:18Z")

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