# Mixed line types JSON and Plain Text in the same file with multiline **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [November 23, 2022, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mixed-line-types-json-and-plain-text-in-the-same-file-with-multiline/319648 "2022-11-23T10:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sirReeall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sirreeall/32/94713_2.png) [@sirReeall](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sirReeall)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mixed-line-types-json-and-plain-text-in-the-same-file-with-multiline/319648/1 "2022-11-23T10:53:45Z")
Hello, I've got log files that can contain plain text lines from a Java application and JSON lines. To complicate matters the plain text lines can be multiline , for example a Java stack trace, so I'm using the multiline codec in the input configuration. This doesn't play nice with the JSON lines as they match the multiline codec's pattern. I was wondering how I can handle this in logstash? I've tried: - conditionals in the input, but this doesn't work and isn't designed to work. - multiple pipeline to pipeline communication with an first pipeline detecting `{` and distributing to a JSON or Plain text pipeline, but I cannot use the multiline codec on the second pipeline, obviously as event could appear out of order. Anyone have any other ideas I could test out? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mixed-line-types-json-and-plain-text-in-the-same-file-with-multiline/319648/2 "2022-12-21T10:54:44Z")
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