My ES logs are filled with many such exceptions
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Invalid UTF-8 middle byte 0x3c
at [Source: org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesReference$MarkSupportingStreamInputWrapper@7204b4bf; line: 1, column: 38]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser._constructError(JsonParser.java:1702) ~[jackson-core-2.8.10.jar:2.8.10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase._reportError(ParserMinimalBase.java:558) ~[jackson-core-2.8.10.jar:2.8.10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser._reportInvalidOther(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:3550) ~[jackson-core-2.8.10.j ar:2.8.10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser._reportInvalidOther(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:3557) ~[jackson-core-2.8.10.j ar:2.8.10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser._decodeUtf8_2(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:3327) ~[jackson-core-2.8.10.jar:2.8 .10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser._finishString2(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:2517) ~[jackson-core-2.8.10.jar:2. 8.10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser._finishAndReturnString(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:2469) ~[jackson-core-2.8.1 0.jar:2.8.10]
at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.getText(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:315) ~[jackson-core-2.8.10.jar:2.8.10]
at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.json.JsonXContentParser.text(JsonXContentParser.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-x-content-6.3.2.jar:6 .3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.support.AbstractXContentParser.textOrNull(AbstractXContentParser.java:269) ~[elasticsearch-x-c ontent-6.3.2.jar:6.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.TextFieldMapper.parseCreateField(TextFieldMapper.java:564) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.2.jar:6.3.2]
at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.FieldMapper.parse(FieldMapper.java:297) ~[elasticsearch-6.3.2.jar:6.3.2]
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