# Display complete multiline message **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [October 12, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856 "2016-10-12T19:40:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gdkge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e56c9b/32.png) [@gdkge](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gdkge)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856/1 "2016-10-12T19:40:14Z")
I have several multiline messages created by filebeat that are sent directly to Elasticsearch. When I do a discovery in Kibana, it is not showing the complete message, which the users would like to see on the Kibana dashboard search window. Is there a way to increase the size of the message being displayed? These are primarily Java stack trace messages using the multiline filter multiline: pattern: '^[[:space:]]+|^Caused by:' negate: false match: after ---
**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856/2 "2016-10-12T23:27:47Z")
Hi Gary, Would you mind adding a screenshot so I can get a better idea of what the problem looks like to your users? Thanks, CJ ---
**Author:** ![gdkge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e56c9b/32.png) [@gdkge](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gdkge)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856/3 "2016-10-17T15:51:44Z")
CJ, It seems my multiline filter in Filebeat is not working I was looking at the log file for the multiline messages and found that they were not being transferred to Elastisearch. My config file is filebeat: # List of prospectors to fetch data. prospectors: # Each - is a prospector. Below are the prospector specific configurations - paths: - /local/gstapps/development/jboss/domain/servers/axeda68dev/log/server.log - /local/gstapps/development/jboss/domain/servers/axeda68dev/log/customobjects.log input\_type: log exclude\_lines: ["^$"] multiline: ``` pattern: '^[[:space:]]+|^Caused by:' negate: false match: after close_older: 15m ``` output: ### Elasticsearch as output elasticsearch: hosts: ["3.28.180.76:9200"] index: "filebeat-jboss-dev" A sample from the server.log file is, where the message at 15:20 is tranferred but the message at 15:22 is not. 15:20:30,233 ERROR [com.axeda.drm.config.validation.AbstractCacheClusterValidator] (EHCACHE ClusterValidator Thread) Found cache key 3.20.244.80-e555b44:157c4a58579:-8000:3.20.244.82--8bae67c:157c4a880e3:-8000 when it should have been deleted (invalidated) for validatorType=EHCACHE nodeId='3.20.244.80-e555b44:157c4a58579:-8000' 15:22:47,141 ERROR [com.axeda.drm.services.eventsubscription.AMQServer] (ESS-Periodic-Reaper-%d thread-1) Error acquiring MBean server connection, username: GEHC, password: gehcManager, jmxUri: service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://usmkersvpvmd2l.am.health.ge.com:3099/jmxrmi,service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://usmkersvpvmd3l.am.health.ge.com:3099/jmxrmi,service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://usmkersvpvmd4l.am.health.ge.com:3099/jmxrmi: java.io.IOException: Failed to retrieve RMIServer stub: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jmxrmi,service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://usmkersvpvmd3l.am.health.ge.com:3099/jmxrmi,service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://usmkersvpvmd4l.am.health.ge.com:3099/jmxrmi at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector.connect(RMIConnector.java:369) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector.connect(RMIConnector.java:249) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at com.axeda.drm.services.eventsubscription.AMQServer.getMBeanServerConnection(AMQServer.java:164) at com.axeda.drm.services.eventsubscription.AMQHelper.getBrokerViewMbean(AMQHelper.java:98) at com.axeda.drm.services.eventsubscription.QueueManagerImpl.getSamePrefixQueues(QueueManagerImpl.java:222) at com.axeda.drm.services.eventsubscription.AMQConnectionMonitor.reapQueues(AMQConnectionMonitor.java:159) at com.axeda.drm.services.eventsubscription.PeriodicReaperRunnable.run(PeriodicReaperRunnable.java:50) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:304) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: jmxrmi,service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://usmkersvpvmd3l.am.health.ge.com:3099/jmxrmi,service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://usmkersvpvmd4l.am.health.ge.com:3099/jmxrmi at com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContext.lookup(RegistryContext.java:116) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.url.GenericURLContext.lookup(GenericURLContext.java:203) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:411) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector.findRMIServerJNDI(RMIConnector.java:1929) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector.findRMIServer(RMIConnector.java:1896) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector.connect(RMIConnector.java:286) [rt.jar:1.7.0\_75] ... 13 more ---
**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856/4 "2016-10-17T16:48:25Z")
Hi Gary, I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with Beats. Would you mind re-posting your problem in the Beats forum? [https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats) Thanks, CJ ---
**Author:** ![gdkge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e56c9b/32.png) [@gdkge](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gdkge)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856/5 "2016-10-17T18:15:55Z")
CJ, Will gladly do that. Thanks for offering to help. ---
**Author:** ![gdkge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e56c9b/32.png) [@gdkge](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gdkge)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856/6 "2016-10-20T14:11:12Z")
CJ, Now that I have the filebeat creating the proper message, can you tell me if there is a way to display more of the message is the dashboard that has the search window in it? Here is a sample of what is currently being displayed. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/b5de95ef8cf6cc0f48da5f4d146e5dbe0aa286ca.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![gdkge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e56c9b/32.png) [@gdkge](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gdkge)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856/7 "2016-10-20T16:19:08Z")
CJ, I found the way to increase the size of the message being displayed by modifying the truncate:maxHeight and setting it to 0 to be able to display the entire message. ---
**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856/8 "2016-10-24T22:29:08Z")
Fantastic! I'm glad you found the solution to your problem. Thank you for posting the solution here, too. Best, CJ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-complete-multiline-message/62856/9 "2017-07-06T13:35:53Z")