# Auditbeat process.args shortened

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-process-args-shortened/337298>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [June 30, 2023, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-process-args-shortened/337298 "2023-06-30T10:02:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![radovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2acd7d/32.png) [@radovan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/radovan)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-process-args-shortened/337298/1 "2023-06-30T10:02:49Z")

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Hi,

I noticed some time ago, that sometimes process.args get shortened in a way that 3 dots are put there instead of more arguments from the commandline so it looks like this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/7/470e44005f9fbcd81c61d1192742549a44c01b3d.png)  
(this is from socket event.dataset, args in this case are: "curl", "--write-out", "%{http\_code}", "--progress-bar", "-f" and "...")

Auditbeat version is 7.16.2, OS is Amazon Linux AMI of version from 2017.09

Is this expected behaviour by auditbeat? In which cases can this happen? Is there any way how to mitigate this?

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:** [July 28, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-process-args-shortened/337298/2 "2023-07-28T12:02:55Z")

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