# How to grok parse a pipe | delimited string of key-value pairs (sorta like FIX)

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-grok-parse-a-pipe-delimited-string-of-key-value-pairs-sorta-like-fix/194073
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-grok-parse-a-pipe-delimited-string-of-key-value-pairs-sorta-like-fix/194073 "2019-08-06T17:46:21Z")
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### Author: ![kmiklas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kmiklas/32/50730_2.png) [@kmiklas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kmiklas)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-grok-parse-a-pipe-delimited-string-of-key-value-pairs-sorta-like-fix/194073/1 "2019-08-06T17:46:21Z")

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Hello All,

I need to grok a pipe-delimited string of values in a grok line; for example:

`|NAME=keith|DAY=wednesday|TIME=09:27:423227|DATE=08/06/2019|amount=68.23|currency=USD|etc...`

What is the easiest way to do this? Some ideas I had:

1. Some sort of grok split
2. Custom Python parser. Filebeat strips off the log line, and forwards it to a Python script for processing
3. Editing the source for Filebeat, looking for lines that contain strings like this, and parse them directly in Go
4. Using the logstash-filter-fix\_protocol on Github as a guide:  
[https://github.com/connamara/logstash-filter-fix\_protocol](https://github.com/connamara/logstash-filter-fix_protocol)

Any guidance is appreciated.

Thanks,  
Keith

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-grok-parse-a-pipe-delimited-string-of-key-value-pairs-sorta-like-fix/194073/2 "2019-08-06T17:49:59Z")

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I would use a kv filter.

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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: [September 3, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-grok-parse-a-pipe-delimited-string-of-key-value-pairs-sorta-like-fix/194073/3 "2019-09-03T17:50:11Z")

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