# Log file parsing and ingesting into ES

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-file-parsing-and-ingesting-into-es/247806>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 7, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-file-parsing-and-ingesting-into-es/247806 "2020-09-07T19:44:03Z")\
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If you want to ingest the entire file as one event then use a pattern that does not match.

```
codec => multiline { pattern => "^Spalanzani" negate => true what => "previous" auto_flush_interval => 2 }

```

If you have a variety of xml objects in a file you could try

```
pattern => "^<?xml"
negate => true
what => previous
```

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