# How to remove \\ in logstash

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 20, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504 "2018-11-20T09:04:12Z")
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### Author: ![arun5635](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@arun5635](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arun5635)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504/1 "2018-11-20T09:04:12Z")

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Hi All  
I am new to the Logstash, I need to remove \ from request and Http\_method

request": ""GET [https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237](https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237) HTTP/2.0""  
http\_method": ""GET"

I want like this  
request": "GET [https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237](https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237) HTTP/2.0""  
http\_method": "GET"

could you please help me?

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### Author: ![arun5635](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@arun5635](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arun5635)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504/2 "2018-11-20T09:05:35Z")

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this is my .conf file

input {  
stdin {}  
}  
filter {  
grok {  
match =\> {"message" =\> '%{NOTSPACE:request\_type} %{TIMESTAMP\_ISO8601:log\_timestamp} %{NOTSPACE:alb-name} %{NOTSPACE:client} %{NOTSPACE:target} %{NOTSPACE:request\_processing\_time:float} %{NOTSPACE:target\_processing\_time:float} %{NOTSPACE:response\_processing\_time:float} %{NOTSPACE:elb\_status\_code} %{NOTSPACE:target\_status\_code} %{NOTSPACE:received\_bytes:float} %{NOTSPACE:sent\_bytes:float} %{QUOTEDSTRING:request} %{QUOTEDSTRING:user\_agent} %{NOTSPACE:ssl\_cipher} %{NOTSPACE:ssl\_protocol} %{NOTSPACE:target\_group\_arn} %{QUOTEDSTRING:trace\_id}'}  
}  
grok{  
match =\> ["request", "^(%{NOTSPACE:http\_method})? (%{NOTSPACE:http\_uri})?"]  
}  
grok{  
match =\> ["target\_group\_arn","(?\<target\_group\_arn\>[/^])(?.[^/]\*)"]  
}   
mutate {  
convert =\> {  
"elb\_status\_code" =\> "integer"  
"target\_status\_code" =\> "integer"  
}

}  
}

output {  
stdout {}  
}

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### Author: ![Eniqmatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@Eniqmatic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eniqmatic)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504/3 "2018-11-20T13:47:28Z")

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Your examples are the same apart from extra quotes?

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### Author: ![arun5635](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@arun5635](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arun5635)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2018, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504/4 "2018-11-21T05:16:41Z")

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sorry forget add backlash

> [@arun5635](#):
>
> request": ""GET [https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237](https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237) HTTP/2.0""  
> http\_method": ""GET"
> 
> I want like this  
> request": "GET [https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237](https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237) HTTP/2.0""  
> http\_method": "GET"

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### Author: ![Eniqmatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@Eniqmatic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eniqmatic)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2018, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504/5 "2018-11-21T08:07:09Z")

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I still cannot see a difference in the examples

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### Author: ![arun5635](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@arun5635](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arun5635)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2018, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504/6 "2018-11-21T10:14:01Z")

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request": "\"GET [https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237](https://www.docsapp.in/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237)HTTP/2.0""  
http\_method": "\"GET"

I need  
request": "GET [https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237](https://www.docsapp.in/dashboardapp/forward/0/content?patientId=6009237)HTTP/2.0""  
http\_method": "GET"

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### Author: ![Eniqmatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@Eniqmatic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eniqmatic)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504/7 "2018-11-21T10:36:46Z")

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Can you give me some raw input example lines? 3 or 4 would be good.

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### Author: ![arun5635](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@arun5635](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arun5635)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2018, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504/8 "2018-11-22T09:01:15Z")

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h2 2018-11-15T06:34:59.899131Z app/ecs-production-cluster/1e87a951378c7dd2 1.5d1.e5.1ew9:4w913 172.31.7.248:80 0.000 0.009 0.000 200 200 52 216 "POST [https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/users](https://www.docsapp.in:443/dashboardapp/forward/users) HTTP/2.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36" ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 TLSv1.2 arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:us-west-2:514:targetgroup/docsapp-release-tg/831ff227855 "Root=1-5bed1393-32203aa0d2b3c1a0d0e13c7e" "www.docsapp.in" "arn:aws:iam::547500:server-certificate/RenewedSSL" 6 2018-11-15T06:34:59.889000Z "forward" "-" "-

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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 20, 2018, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-in-logstash/157504/9 "2018-12-20T09:01:17Z")

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