Logstash 5.1.1 - Couldn't find any filter plugin named 'multiline'

[seth.yes (Seth S)]

@Christian_Dahlqvist I'm not in a good place to edit the docs but if you get anyone to change it, someone should also add that apparently the 'auto_flush_interval' is required to make the multiline codec work. Thanks!

Logstash input file codec multiline not working as expected

For me setting auto_flush_interval => 5 does solve the problem.

Issue with file input multiline codec

I found a related issue https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-file/issues/90 which mentions that auto_flush needs to be set via the auto_flush_interval codec parameter. Once I set auto_flush_interval => 3 I observed the desired behavior. file { path => "c:/temp/test.log" start_position => beginning sincedb_path => "NUL" ignore_older => 0 codec => multiline { pattern => "^%{MONTHDAY} %{MONTH} %{YEAR} %{TIME}" negate => true what => previou…