# Identify syslog message and filter it

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-syslog-message-and-filter-it/179550>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 3, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-syslog-message-and-filter-it/179550 "2019-05-03T14:26:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![raxawageme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@raxawageme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raxawageme)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-syslog-message-and-filter-it/179550/3 "2019-05-03T14:33:02Z")

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I think I found a [comment](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-tag-log-files-in-filebeat-for-logstash-ingestion/44713/7) that will help.

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