Multiline with type filestram

[adrianfusco (Adrian)]

Hello,

I see type:log is going to be deprecated (Log input | Filebeat Reference [8.2] | Elastic) and we should use filestream instead of this one.

I'm trying to parse some output from ansible. A very simple basic example:

TASK [example task] ********************************************
this is the first line of multilinetask that should bet added to the TASK message too
META: example meta

I have tried different configurations, but I see this one should work (read the following link) but it doesn't seem to work for me:

• Multi-line Filebeat templates don't work with filebeat.inputs - type: filestream

Example of filebeat.yml conf:

filebeat.inputs:
- type: filestream
  paths:
    - /home/afuscoar/task.log
  parsers:
  - multiline:
      type: pattern
      pattern: '(PLAY|META)'
      negate: true
      match: after
  fields_under_root: true

       "message" => "TASK [example task] ********************************************",
...
       "message" => "this is the first line of multilinetask that should bet added to the TASK message too",
...
       "message" => "META: example meta",

Instead of something like this:

       "message" => "TASK [example task] ********************************************\nthis is the first line of multilinetask that should bet added to the TASK message too",
...
       "message" => "META: example meta",

Does anyone know what could be the problem? It was working perfectly using type: log and multiline.*.

I tried different indentations in the multiline section.

Thanks.