# Multiline not capturing data in swirly brackets

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-not-capturing-data-in-swirly-brackets/176593>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 12, 2019, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-not-capturing-data-in-swirly-brackets/176593 "2019-04-12T09:29:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![ukgaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d6d6ee/32.png) [@ukgaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ukgaz)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-not-capturing-data-in-swirly-brackets/176593/1 "2019-04-12T09:29:39Z")

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I'm struggling to get multiple lines, including data inside swirly brackets to be captured, only the first line gets captured.  
Filebeat 5.6

```
multiline.pattern: '^[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2},[0-9]{3}'
multiline.negate: true
multiline.match: after

```

Log example

```
00:00:02,587 INFO [****|****] [****.wsutilities.logging.RestLogger] (taskExecutor-4) OUTGOING REQUEST: GET http://****/ **** /rest/ping
REQUEST HEADERS: {
Content-Length: 0
POI: HOSTED
}
```

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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:** [May 10, 2019, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiline-not-capturing-data-in-swirly-brackets/176593/2 "2019-05-10T09:29:52Z")

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