# Spaces between every letter from .log files on Windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spaces-between-every-letter-from-log-files-on-windows/221758>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 2, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spaces-between-every-letter-from-log-files-on-windows/221758 "2020-03-02T19:01:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![braynyac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braynyac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braynyac)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spaces-between-every-letter-from-log-files-on-windows/221758/1 "2020-03-02T19:01:12Z")

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As the topic says, I have several .log files that are sending data from Filebeats to Logstash / Graylog. Within Graylog, all of the lines for these files have a space between every character, like this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/0/1003ecc2c7950ae7c8c0485b1ca50286be4b9aec.png)

Interestingly, when I paste the text here, it formats it correctly. May be a problem with Graylog?

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**Author:** ![braynyac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braynyac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braynyac)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spaces-between-every-letter-from-log-files-on-windows/221758/2 "2020-03-03T18:08:47Z")

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Modified the filebeat.yml to tail the log files, no success. The logs still come in formatted with spaces between every character. Is anyone else seeing this?

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**Author:** ![braynyac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braynyac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braynyac)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spaces-between-every-letter-from-log-files-on-windows/221758/3 "2020-03-05T13:49:01Z")

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Any ideas? Happens for all log files from this particular vendor. Do I need to validate the encoding of the log file? It _seems_ ok.

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**Author:** ![braynyac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braynyac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braynyac)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spaces-between-every-letter-from-log-files-on-windows/221758/4 "2020-03-06T16:42:14Z")

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Created a new forum post over at the Graylog site, to see if I get more traction there.

Link: [https://community.graylog.org/t/spaces-between-every-letter-from-log-files-on-windows/14375](https://community.graylog.org/t/spaces-between-every-letter-from-log-files-on-windows/14375)

~Tim

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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:** [April 3, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/spaces-between-every-letter-from-log-files-on-windows/221758/5 "2020-04-03T16:46:44Z")

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