# Parsing a Raw JSON file "Invalid Setting for json filter"

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-a-raw-json-file-invalid-setting-for-json-filter/280735
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 8, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-a-raw-json-file-invalid-setting-for-json-filter/280735 "2021-08-08T14:59:04Z")
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#### Post date: [August 8, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-a-raw-json-file-invalid-setting-for-json-filter/280735/4 "2021-08-08T15:52:18Z")

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Your JSON is pretty-printed across multiple lines. You will need to use a multiline codec to combine all the lines of a single JSON object into one [message] field. See [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-array-of-json-objects-with-logstash-and-injesting-to-elastic/203197/2) and [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-parse-json-array-object-in-logstash/89247/2).

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