# Introduction to Observability,Topics: lesson-4-multi-line-processing , is the last row correct?

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**Category:** Elastic Training\
**Created:** [July 12, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduction-to-observability-topics-lesson-4-multi-line-processing-is-the-last-row-correct/240833 "2020-07-12T11:42:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduction-to-observability-topics-lesson-4-multi-line-processing-is-the-last-row-correct/240833/1 "2020-07-12T11:42:08Z")

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Could you please validate, the last row(selected in red reactangle) is correct? Correct option for the explanation should be Negate: True(instead of false) and Match: Before

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**Author:** ![Romain\_Geffraye](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/romain_geffraye/32/77053_2.png) [@Romain\_Geffraye](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Romain_Geffraye)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduction-to-observability-topics-lesson-4-multi-line-processing-is-the-last-row-correct/240833/2 "2020-07-13T09:03:41Z")

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Hello,

The last row is not correct, it should be `negate: True` and `match: before` as you mentioned.

Thanks for spotting this issue, we are going to fix this soon.

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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:** [August 12, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduction-to-observability-topics-lesson-4-multi-line-processing-is-the-last-row-correct/240833/3 "2020-08-12T09:03:49Z")

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