# Capture Body to Hapi Js

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capture-body-to-hapi-js/278450>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** nodejs\
**Created:** [July 12, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capture-body-to-hapi-js/278450 "2021-07-12T17:52:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capture-body-to-hapi-js/278450/1 "2021-07-12T17:52:08Z")

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Hi 🙂

I'm using nodejs agent with hapi framework, i set up `captureBody` option into config, even with this option enabled my http requests doesnt store payload, after read some issues related with this errors, i discovered that the APM Agent only get body payload when content type header is set to `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`

There`s any way to save the payload into my transactions ?

Thanks 🙂

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**Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capture-body-to-hapi-js/278450/2 "2021-08-02T13:52:50Z")

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@guimap The agent doesn't disable capturing the incoming request body if the content-type is something other than application/x-ww-form-urlencoded. However, it _does_ get the body value from:

```auto
var body = req.json || req.body || req.payload

```

so it relies on the HTTP framework setting the read body on one of those variables. Is it possible your HAPI server is configured to only parse a response body if it has that content-type?

The agent's handling of this is in `getContextFromRequest` in "node\_modules/elastic-apm-node/lib/parsers.js". Perhaps you could add some debug statements in there to print what the agent is seeing.