# Document\_id overwriting all the data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-id-overwriting-all-the-data/105724>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 30, 2017, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-id-overwriting-all-the-data/105724 "2017-10-30T07:06:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Navinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Navinder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Navinder)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-id-overwriting-all-the-data/105724/1 "2017-10-30T07:06:51Z")

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Hi, I have a JSON field named as "payload.user\_id". Now in logstash output file I have mentioned index as well as document\_id =\> "%{payload.user\_id}". But instead of taking the value of user id as \_id. It is showing \_id as "%{payload.user\_id}", which is in turn overwriting everything keeping just one document.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-id-overwriting-all-the-data/105724/2 "2017-10-30T08:13:38Z")

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I think it should be ‘%{[payload][user\_id]}’.

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**Author:** ![Navinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Navinder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Navinder)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-id-overwriting-all-the-data/105724/3 "2017-10-31T06:17:23Z")

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Thanks, it works.

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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:** [November 28, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-id-overwriting-all-the-data/105724/4 "2017-11-28T06:17:25Z")

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