# Issues with multiline

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-multiline/93355>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 17, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-multiline/93355 "2017-07-17T08:15:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-multiline/93355/2 "2017-07-17T08:37:23Z")

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This seems similar to [Filebeat multiline](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multiline/93326). Your pattern seems to expect an extra leading `[`.

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