# Multiline max\_lines not set

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-max-lines-not-set/73122>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 29, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-max-lines-not-set/73122 "2017-01-29T11:10:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mjasion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mjasion/32/14991_2.png) [@mjasion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mjasion)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-max-lines-not-set/73122/1 "2017-01-29T11:10:35Z")

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Hi

I'm working on harvesting large csv files using multiline option and It looks like that default option of `multiline.max_lines` is not overriden by value set in `filebeat.yml`

When filebeat is parsing record which takes more than 500 lines he stops on 500th line and incomplete record is published to output.

I am using filebeat 5.1.2 in docker on ubuntu image

Here are configuration and results of parsing sample file: [https://gist.github.com/mjasion/235768fb87a7f708264669af755bd23d](https://gist.github.com/mjasion/235768fb87a7f708264669af755bd23d)  
Published record should have all lines from `0001` to `999`.

I also set `multiline.timeout: 10s` but result was same

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-max-lines-not-set/73122/2 "2017-01-30T11:56:33Z")

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looks like a typo: `multiline.max_linex: 10000`

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**Author:** ![mjasion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mjasion/32/14991_2.png) [@mjasion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mjasion)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-max-lines-not-set/73122/3 "2017-01-30T12:07:19Z")

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You are right. ☹ I focused on changing value...  
Thanks @steffens and sorry for wasting time

Thread can be closed

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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:** [February 27, 2017, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-max-lines-not-set/73122/4 "2017-02-27T12:07:22Z")

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