# How to stop fields from kv filter splitting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-fields-from-kv-filter-splitting/169197>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-fields-from-kv-filter-splitting/169197 "2019-02-20T11:55:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![priya08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@priya08](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/priya08)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-fields-from-kv-filter-splitting/169197/1 "2019-02-20T11:55:01Z")

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Hi Team,

I am using KV filter for my log statement , sample log statement

[INFO]|logtype:SYSLOG|datetime:2019-02-20T16:59:55.045+0530|hostname:ABCD|threadId:87-pool-3-thread-8(main)|userId:null|payload:\<?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?\>KeyWords=&quot;|ABCD:XYZ:ABCD:2|EF:KL:UV:2

I don't want to split in side payload field(Example : |ABCD:XYZ:ABCD:2|EF:KL:UV:2") , could you please suggest me how can we achieve this .

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-fields-from-kv-filter-splitting/169197/2 "2019-02-20T13:04:16Z")

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Use grok to capture it separately, and mutate+gsub to remove it.

```
    grok { match => { "message" => ['KeyWords="%{GREEDYDATA:keywords}'] } }
    mutate { gsub => ["message", 'KeyWords=".*', ''] }
```

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**Author:** ![priya08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@priya08](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/priya08)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-fields-from-kv-filter-splitting/169197/3 "2019-02-21T10:12:56Z")

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Thanks for the response..  
But its not working, its not replacing .

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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:** [March 21, 2019, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-fields-from-kv-filter-splitting/169197/4 "2019-03-21T10:17:49Z")

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