# Parsing multiple static cloudtrail files with json codec

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-multiple-static-cloudtrail-files-with-json-codec/111403>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 12, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-multiple-static-cloudtrail-files-with-json-codec/111403 "2017-12-12T18:19:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![jgwentworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@jgwentworth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jgwentworth)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-multiple-static-cloudtrail-files-with-json-codec/111403/1 "2017-12-12T18:19:31Z")

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Hi, I'm running into an issue where I can parse individual cloud trail files but cannot ingest multiple files with the same json structure.

file {  
path =\> "/home/\*\*/\*.json"  
type =\> "cloudtrail"  
codec =\> json {  
charset =\> "ASCII"  
}  
start\_position =\> "beginning"  
sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null"  
}  
}  
filter {  
if [type] == "cloudtrail" {  
json {  
source =\> "message"  
}  
split {  
field =\> "Records"  
}  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![jgwentworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@jgwentworth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jgwentworth)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-multiple-static-cloudtrail-files-with-json-codec/111403/2 "2017-12-14T13:11:14Z")

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the fix is running this command on your cloud trail files:

cat $filetochange | jq -r -M .Records[] -c \>\> finaljsonfile.json

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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:** [January 11, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-multiple-static-cloudtrail-files-with-json-codec/111403/3 "2018-01-11T13:11:30Z")

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Closed on January 11, 2018, 1:11pm UTC

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