# About getting specific log and drop others

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/about-getting-specific-log-and-drop-others/36925>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Created:** [January 31, 2026, 8:15am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/about-getting-specific-log-and-drop-others/36925 "2026-01-31T08:15:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SubhojitRoy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/subhojitroy/32/18404_2.png) [@SubhojitRoy](https://community.graylog.org/u/SubhojitRoy)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 8:15am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/about-getting-specific-log-and-drop-others/36925/1 "2026-01-31T08:15:04Z")

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**1. Describe your incident:**

i am getting logs of my router. router is sending a lot of logs. but i want to get specific logs like in message it says :500 or :4500. i have used rule in streams to my specific logs only but other logs are still getting stored in the server and storage is getting full.

**2. Describe your environment:**

- OS Information: ubuntu 24.04

- Package Version: graylog 7

- Service logs, configurations, and environment variables:

**3. What steps have you already taken to try and solve the problem?**

i have taken steps in the pipeline to crate new rule to drop other log that i don’t want to recieve… but still recieving.

**4. How can the community help?**

community can help me by telling me the process of droping other logs. it would be a great help.

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**Author:** ![frantz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@frantz](https://community.graylog.org/u/frantz)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/about-getting-specific-log-and-drop-others/36925/2 "2026-02-04T13:29:49Z")

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Hello,

The pipeline has an issue, because it’s the right way to discard logs.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/about-getting-specific-log-and-drop-others/36925/3 "2026-02-18T13:30:33Z")

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