Removing header in log file using logstash

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Hi,

I have a log file which has a header as the first line to represent the log line's type. While parsing with logstash, it happened to parse the header along with the other log lines also but I need to remove the header as i dont want it to be indexed in Elasticsearch.

for example:

Level Date and Time Source Event ID Task Category

Information 10/27/2016 12:18:34 AM Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing 4689 Process Termination "A process has exited."

Error 10/27/2016 12:18:34 AM Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing 4699 Deadlock "A process has ended in error."

Here, the line that starts with "Level" is a header line. I have to remove this line while parsing.
Please help me doing this.

There may be a possibility that I may have a log file without header also. How should I handler in that case?

Note: This is not a csv file which I am dealing with. It is a normal log file wherein fields are separated by spaces.

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you can either rely on grok as the first filter with the message format (which will tag the header as _grokparsefailure because it doesn't match the line format), or use a conditional like:

if [message] =~ /^Level Date/ {
  drop {}
}
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Thanks jsvd. I haven't tried it yet. But once I looked at it, I will let you know the result