# Issue in parsing the data in logstash

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-in-parsing-the-data-in-logstash/89411
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 14, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-in-parsing-the-data-in-logstash/89411 "2017-06-14T15:34:39Z")
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### Author: ![viki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8baadc/32.png) [@viki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/viki)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-in-parsing-the-data-in-logstash/89411/1 "2017-06-14T15:34:40Z")

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Hi,

Facing parsing error with spaces,

Input :  
2017-06-13 04:02:18,933 INFO [SIRAHULOG] (http-10.80.6.102-16013-25) Thread ID:221:AppSessionFilter:doPost:user session:Everything matched

We are grep "INFO" (it has two spaces between "INFO" and "[SIRAHULOG]" ) using below

grok {  
match =\> {"message" =\> [  
"^%{TIMESTAMP\_ISO8601:time} %{LOGLEVEL:loglevel} [%{DATA:class}] %{GREEDYDATA:message}" ]  
}

Output :  
.  
.  
"loglevel" =\> "INFO",  
.  
.

But other than INFO like ERROR or FATAL logs we have only one space left between "ERROR" and "[SIRAHULOG]" . So , parsing fails

Example input :

2017-06-14 03:46:09,132 FATAL [SIRAHULOG] (WorkManager(2)-33) Thread ID:147:Error getting Entity Manager for firm 105471 Name : persistence-units/apptivodb3: firm id: 105471

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-in-parsing-the-data-in-logstash/89411/2 "2017-06-15T06:04:25Z")

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Adjust your expression to allow for one or more spaces between the tokens:

```
^%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:time} +%{LOGLEVEL:loglevel} +[%{DATA:class}] +%{GREEDYDATA:message}
```

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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: [July 13, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-in-parsing-the-data-in-logstash/89411/3 "2017-07-13T06:04:28Z")

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