# Unable to exclude\_lines in filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-exclude-lines-in-filebeat/165215>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 22, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-exclude-lines-in-filebeat/165215 "2019-01-22T10:36:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![balamelangi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@balamelangi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balamelangi)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-exclude-lines-in-filebeat/165215/21 "2019-01-23T13:17:07Z")

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@Tek_Chand

How to on **exclude\_lines** on?. I'm using filebeat 5.6

And I tried what ever he gave the line.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![balamelangi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@balamelangi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balamelangi)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-exclude-lines-in-filebeat/165215/22 "2019-01-23T13:20:51Z")

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Thanking you for help @Tek_Chand and @steffens .

I fixed the above issue by using :

```
 processors:

```

- drop\_event:  
when:  
contains:  
message: "AbstractLoggingWriter"

Thanks.

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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:** [February 20, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-exclude-lines-in-filebeat/165215/23 "2019-02-20T13:20:54Z")

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