# Multiline Match

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-match/150499>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 1, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-match/150499 "2018-10-01T03:19:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Esity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4491bb/32.png) [@Esity](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Esity)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-match/150499/1 "2018-10-01T03:19:15Z")

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So I am trying to get multiline to work and am doing something stupid. Anyone see anything inherently wrong?

```
- type: log
  paths:
- "/var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log"
  tags: ["elasticsearch"]
  multiline.pattern: '^[[:space:]]+(at|\.{3})\b|^Caused by:'
  multiline.negate: false
  multiline.match: after
```

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**Author:** ![Esity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4491bb/32.png) [@Esity](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Esity)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-match/150499/2 "2018-10-01T03:19:46Z")

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When I got to Kibana and search, it is showing each line as a different item. This is whatever the standard log format for ES is

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**Author:** ![kvch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kvch/32/72058_2.png) [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-match/150499/3 "2018-10-01T06:31:39Z")

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Could you provide an example log?  
Also, have you tried using the elasticsearch module provided by Filebeat: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.4/filebeat-module-elasticsearch.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.4/filebeat-module-elasticsearch.html)?

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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:** [October 29, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-match/150499/4 "2018-10-29T06:31:44Z")

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