# Could not index event to Elasticsearch.Rejecting mapping update to \[\] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type: \[\_doc,syslog\]

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-rejecting-mapping-update-to-as-the-final-mapping-would-have-more-than-1-type-doc-syslog/238326
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**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-rejecting-mapping-update-to-as-the-final-mapping-would-have-more-than-1-type-doc-syslog/238326 "2020-06-23T19:22:09Z")
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### Author: ![cezar996](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@cezar996](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cezar996)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-rejecting-mapping-update-to-as-the-final-mapping-would-have-more-than-1-type-doc-syslog/238326/3 "2020-06-24T15:44:52Z")

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Hi @Badger and thank you very much for your reply!

This topic is related to my post [discuss.elastic.co](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-integrate-elk-with-arcsight/236762) for which I have found the solution that implicitly solved this problem I posted here. 😀

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