# Elastic APM is not displaying request.body for POST request for the content type-Application/JSON

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm-is-not-displaying-request-body-for-post-request-for-the-content-type-application-json/169072>\
**Category:** APM\
**Created:** [February 19, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm-is-not-displaying-request-body-for-post-request-for-the-content-type-application-json/169072 "2019-02-19T17:03:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Veeramani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/2acd7d/32.png) [@Veeramani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Veeramani)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm-is-not-displaying-request-body-for-post-request-for-the-content-type-application-json/169072/1 "2019-02-19T17:03:02Z")

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Hi,

We are using Elastic APM agent & server for Wildfly 10 application.  
We have enabled the below options, still the request body is mentioned as [REDACTED] for POST requests with the content type as Application/JSON.  
elastic.apm.capture\_body=transactions  
or  
elastic.apm.capture\_body=all

The context.request.body is always displaying as [REDACTED].  
share your comments and Any more configuration to be done?

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**Author:** ![axw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/axw/32/28197_2.png) [@axw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/axw)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm-is-not-displaying-request-body-for-post-request-for-the-content-type-application-json/169072/2 "2019-02-20T01:21:16Z")

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Per [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/current/config-http.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/current/config-http.html), currently only `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` content-type bodies are captured by the Java agent.

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**Author:** ![Eyal\_Koren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eyal_koren/32/36830_2.png) [@Eyal\_Koren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eyal_Koren)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm-is-not-displaying-request-body-for-post-request-for-the-content-type-application-json/169072/3 "2019-02-20T06:23:13Z")

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There is a work in progress to capture text-based request body as well, so you may want to watch [our GitHub repo](https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-java) for releases.

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**Author:** ![pabloborh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@pabloborh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pabloborh)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm-is-not-displaying-request-body-for-post-request-for-the-content-type-application-json/169072/4 "2019-02-21T16:20:59Z")

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This feature would be very useful

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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:** [March 14, 2019, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-apm-is-not-displaying-request-body-for-post-request-for-the-content-type-application-json/169072/5 "2019-03-14T12:21:00Z")

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