# Support multiple multiline patterns in filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-multiple-multiline-patterns-in-filebeat/145871>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 24, 2018, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-multiple-multiline-patterns-in-filebeat/145871 "2018-08-24T08:42:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![agilezebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@agilezebra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/agilezebra)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-multiple-multiline-patterns-in-filebeat/145871/1 "2018-08-24T08:42:05Z")

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I'm having trouble parsing Python stack traces satisfactorily in the presence of other multiline output from other docker containers (traefik for example). There doesn't seem to be any mechanism to allow prospecting from `/var/lib/docker/containers/*/*.log` but to apply different multiline patterns to different types of output.

See full description here:

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51898547/support-multiple-multiline-patterns-in-elk-log-parsing>

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-multiple-multiline-patterns-in-filebeat/145871/2 "2018-09-03T08:48:13Z")

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I think autodiscovery could help in your case: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-autodiscover.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-autodiscover.html) So you can specify patterns per type.

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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:** [October 1, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-multiple-multiline-patterns-in-filebeat/145871/3 "2018-10-01T08:48:17Z")

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