# Ingest multiple json files under a folder

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-multiple-json-files-under-a-folder/190026>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-multiple-json-files-under-a-folder/190026 "2019-07-11T13:33:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-multiple-json-files-under-a-folder/190026/5 "2019-07-11T14:06:48Z")

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If you want to ingest the entire file as a single event then use a multiline codec that never matches and a timeout

```
codec => multiline { pattern => "^Spalanzani" negate => true what => previous auto_flush_interval => 1 }

```

If you have multiple objects which are pretty-printed, so that a line just containing } indicates the end of an object use

```
codec => multiline { pattern => "^}" negate => true what => next auto_flush_interval => 1 }
```

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