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 …

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

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 t…

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 Thanks, CJ

CJ, Will gladly do that. Thanks for offering to help.

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.

Fantastic! I'm glad you found the solution to your problem. Thank you for posting the solution here, too. Best, CJ

Display complete multiline message

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gdkge (Gary Keller) October 20, 2016, 2:11pm 6

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.

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Display complete multiline message

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