# Does Logstash has a limit size for each event-message?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 24, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268 "2015-07-24T21:07:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Akudva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akudva)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268/1 "2015-07-24T21:07:07Z")
Hello,
I am using file input plugin and wanted to know if Logstash has a size limit for each message/event?
If yes, is it configurable? I am not able to find it in any documentation.
Thanks,
Ashish
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268/2 "2015-07-25T00:33:30Z")
Why do you want to do this?
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### Author:  [@Akudva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akudva)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268/3 "2015-07-27T14:23:25Z")
Mark,
I do not mean to change it but we see cases where our multi-line log messages have xml embedded in them.
I am fine if long messages get truncated but wanted to know what is the upper limit when it gets truncated so that we can advise our application teams to log messages accordingly.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268/4 "2015-07-27T22:10:16Z")
I don't believe there is any limit, but then I don't know if we've tested massively long XML files (nor what massive is in this context).
If you can get your apps team to alter things I'd recommend getting them to log in JSON instead 🙂
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### Author:  [@Akudva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akudva)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268/5 "2015-07-29T13:55:01Z")
Thanks Mark! 🙂
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268/6 "2015-07-29T21:20:02Z")
Turns out that you can set a limit for the multiline filter, but not for the XML one.
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### Author:  [@Ganesh2303](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ganesh2303)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2017, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268/7 "2017-05-08T11:14:15Z")
I'm facing same issue. My event contain XML data and it have more than 2500 lines, but when i check message field it contain 500 lines. Is there any limit has to increase for the message filed
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-has-a-limit-size-for-each-event-message/26268/8 "2017-07-06T04:26:44Z")