# Output in kibana not expected

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 5, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/output-in-kibana-not-expected/383888 "2025-12-05T14:37:41Z")\
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Hi @DOkuwa

Perhaps take a look at this as well

> [@Custom logs ingest: how?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-logs-ingest-how/321928/2):
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> Hi @Johannnnnn I suspect your first issue is that your JSON is Pretty formatted / multi-line and filebeat is line oriented so it expects the JSON to be single line ndjson. If your file actually looks like above, you're going to have to use a multiline parser or just simply convert it to newline delimited with jq [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-parsing-pretty-json-data/293103/3) are some instructions ignore it for logstash, same concept Once in ndjson see [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-input-filestream.html#_ndjson) If you don't want to do that, then please provide an actual sample of your file with multiple …

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