# Help with multiline log from Windows 2016 Server to Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-multiline-log-from-windows-2016-server-to-kibana/198081>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 4, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-multiline-log-from-windows-2016-server-to-kibana/198081 "2019-09-04T16:44:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_C](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peter_c/32/48977_2.png) [@Peter\_C](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_C)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-multiline-log-from-windows-2016-server-to-kibana/198081/1 "2019-09-04T16:44:31Z")

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HI,

I am having trouble with getting the multiline logs to show up right in Kibana using filebeats 6.8.2.

I've tried using the following:

```
multiline.pattern: '^\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{4} \d{1,2}:\d{2}:\d{2} (AM|PM) :'
multiline.negate: false
multiline.match: after

```

and

```
multiline.pattern: '^[[:space:]]'
multiline.negate: false
multiline.match: after

```

Example log:

```
1/24/2019 9:31:22 AM : PutTripRequest status: Starting...
1/24/2019 9:31:22 AM : Trip booking request processed successfully
1/25/2019 11:15:27 AM : Communication Link Failure
   at Pervasive.Data.SqlClient.Lna.ae.a(Stream )
   at Pervasive.Data.SqlClient.Lna.am.a(v , u )
   at Pervasive.Data.SqlClient.Lna.am.ci(v )
   at Pervasive.Data.SqlClient.Lna.aw.e()
1/25/2019 11:17:21 AM : Communication Link Failure
   at Pervasive.Data.SqlClient.Lna.am.a(v , u )
   at Pervasive.Data.SqlClient.Lna.am.ci(v )
   at Pervasive.Data.SqlClient.Lna.aw.e()
   at Pervasive.Data.SqlClient.PsqlCommand.a(Boolean , CommandBehavior , Boolean )

```

The logs are still on different lines in Kibana (nothing changes)  
Seems to work on [golang](https://play.golang.org/p/7PjYXVLgTYr)

Please let me know what I am doing wrong.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_C](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peter_c/32/48977_2.png) [@Peter\_C](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Peter_C)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-multiline-log-from-windows-2016-server-to-kibana/198081/2 "2019-09-10T17:39:41Z")

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I been trying to test on [https://regex101.com/](https://regex101.com/) and I am still stumped.  
REGEXP pattern seems correct  
Any reason nothing happens in Kibana and still creates multiple lines?

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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:** [October 8, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-multiline-log-from-windows-2016-server-to-kibana/198081/3 "2019-10-08T17:39:43Z")

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