# Skip Header

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-header/119828
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [February 14, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-header/119828 "2018-02-14T15:15:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Nayaz\_JH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nayaz\_JH](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nayaz_JH)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-header/119828/1 "2018-02-14T15:15:41Z")

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# =============================================================================================== DATE TIME | COMPONENT |SVR| THREAD NAME | MESSAGE

14/02/2018 13:11:34:722|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,5374,2018-02-14,null,639155141696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:12:41:429|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3842,2018-02-14,null,639155142696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:13:31:178|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,4385,2018-02-14,null,639155143696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:14:28:802|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3595,2018-02-14,null,639155144696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:14:42:040|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,2818,2018-02-14,null,639155145696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:14:56:800|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,4896,2018-02-14,null,639155146696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:15:09:715|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3043,2018-02-14,null,639155147696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:15:21:399|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3176,2018-02-14,null,639155148696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:15:34:094|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3446,2018-02-14,null,639155149696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:15:53:393|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3246,2018-02-14,null,639155150696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:16:09:703|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,4715,2018-02-14,null,639155151696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:16:22:784|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,5062,2018-02-14,null,639155152696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:16:44:624|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3912,2018-02-14,null,639155153696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:16:57:282|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3037,2018-02-14,null,639155154696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:17:10:705|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3107,2018-02-14,null,639155155696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:17:28:311|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3156,2018-02-14,null,639155156696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:17:41:444|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3272,2018-02-14,null,639155157696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:17:54:607|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,2659,2018-02-14,null,639155158696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:18:06:516|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,2709,2018-02-14,null,639155159696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 13:18:37:154|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,3310,2018-02-14,null,639155160696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null  
14/02/2018 15:37:22:447|MessagingRepository |INF|RGS-Nayaz-LT,MessagingBroker,PhilMoOptServlet,MO Request,11637,2018-02-14,null,639155161696,null,null,null,null,1,120,0,null,SUCCESS##MO Response : [200],null

This is my log file i want to ignore the lines below

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DATE TIME | COMPONENT |SVR| THREAD NAME | MESSAGE

Please help me resolve this issue i am new to logstash

input{  
file{  
path =\> "V:/cc/7.7/mcs\_7\_indonesia\_dev/mpower/out/log/MessagingBroker\_access.log"  
start\_position =\> "beginning"  
sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null"  
}  
}

output {  
elasticsearch {  
action =\> "index"  
hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"]  
index =\> "access\_log"  
document\_type =\> "access\_logs"  
}

stdout { }  
}  
Above is config file

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### Author: ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-header/119828/2 "2018-02-14T16:14:43Z")

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You can drop{} lines that match a pattern. For example,

```auto
if [message] =~ "[=]+" or [message] =~ "^DATE TIME" { drop {} }

```

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### Author: ![Nayaz\_JH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nayaz\_JH](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nayaz_JH)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-header/119828/3 "2018-02-15T05:25:24Z")

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Thanks for the quick reply its resolved the problem

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### Author: ![Nayaz\_JH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nayaz\_JH](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nayaz_JH)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-header/119828/4 "2018-02-16T07:41:39Z")

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> [@Nayaz\_JH](#):
>
> 14/02/2018 13:11:34:722|MessagingRepository |INF|

i want to skip 14/02/2018 13:11:34:722|MessagingRepository |INF| this in every line. above is my sample data.

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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: [March 16, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-header/119828/5 "2018-03-16T07:41:44Z")

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