# How to get logstash to parse multi-line fields into multiple lines
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-logstash-to-parse-multi-line-fields-into-multiple-lines/180376
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-logstash-to-parse-multi-line-fields-into-multiple-lines/180376 "2019-05-09T13:53:30Z")
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### Author:  [@thadc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thadc)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-logstash-to-parse-multi-line-fields-into-multiple-lines/180376/1 "2019-05-09T13:53:30Z")
Hi, we have messages input into logstash from filebeat where some fields are multi-line (e.g., like a stack trace message field). By default, after grok-parsing a field that was multi-line in the original log file , the parsed output of the field is one wrapped-around line. Is there a way to preserve the original multi-line state in the parsed output? If so, how can it be accomplished?
thanks for any response.
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-logstash-to-parse-multi-line-fields-into-multiple-lines/180376/2 "2019-05-09T15:34:41Z")
If you want to split a multi-line message into multiple events then you can use
```
split {}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-logstash-to-parse-multi-line-fields-into-multiple-lines/180376/3 "2019-06-06T15:34:48Z")
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