# Logstash grokparsefailure

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-grokparsefailure/104828>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 23, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-grokparsefailure/104828 "2017-10-23T03:22:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![xiaoxinba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e79b87/32.png) [@xiaoxinba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xiaoxinba)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-grokparsefailure/104828/1 "2017-10-23T03:22:12Z")

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my serio:  
filebeat read log info from file, then kafka, logstash consume log from kafka and write elasticsearch.  
But sometimes, in logstash ,there are half-baked log (a section of a log event), so grok parse failure;  
sometimes, log is messy code;  
why? someone help??  
thanks!

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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:** [October 23, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-grokparsefailure/104828/2 "2017-10-23T13:27:52Z")

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It's completely impossible to help without additional details. What do you the broken log entries look like? What does your configuration look like?

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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:** [November 20, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-grokparsefailure/104828/3 "2017-11-20T13:27:55Z")

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