# Multiple match option in grok

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-match-option-in-grok/83590>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 25, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-match-option-in-grok/83590 "2017-04-25T15:56:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-match-option-in-grok/83590/7 "2017-04-26T09:34:50Z")

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Seems to work fine here:

```nohighlight
$ cat test.config 
filter {
    if [type] == "syslog" {
        grok {
            match => {
                "message" => ["%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:syslog_program}(?:\[%{POSINT:syslog_pid}\])?: Launching batch job %{NUMBER:job_id} for UID %{POSINT:slurm_user_id}","%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:syslog_program}(?:\[%{POSINT:syslog_pid}\])?: launch task %{NUMBER:job_id} request from %{PROG:slurm_host} (\(port %{POSINT:slurm_port}\))","%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:syslog_program}(?:\[%{POSINT:syslog_pid}\])?: _run_prolog: run job script took usec=%{NUMBER:slurm_usec}","%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{SYSLOGHOST:syslog_hostname} %{DATA:syslog_program}(?:\[%{POSINT:syslog_pid}\])?: _run_prolog: prolog with lock for job %{POSINT:job_id} ran for %{NUMBER:slurm_time}"]
       }
       add_field => ["received_at", "%{@timestamp}"]
       add_field => ["received_from", "%{host}"]
       }
   }

   syslog_pri { }

   if !("_grokparsefailure" in [tags]) {
        mutate {
           add_tag => "parsed_by_slurm_filter"
        }
    }
    mutate {
        rename => { "syslog_message" => "message" }
    }
}
$ /opt/logstash/bin/logstash -f test.config --configtest
Configuration OK

```

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