# Filebeat 5 decoding json probrom

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-decoding-json-probrom/57559
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [August 9, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-decoding-json-probrom/57559 "2016-08-09T07:40:51Z")
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### Author: ![Andy\_Young](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Andy\_Young](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andy_Young)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-decoding-json-probrom/57559/1 "2016-08-09T07:40:51Z")

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Hi,guys  
I test the filebeat-5.0.0\_alpha4-1 and found it show many logs like that:

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2016/08/09 07:28:35.013208 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:35.013277 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:35.013487 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:35.013706 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:35.014700 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:36.017146 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:36.017305 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:36.017503 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:36.018525 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:36.020624 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:36.023530 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
2016/08/09 07:28:36.023752 json.go:38: ERR Error decoding JSON: invalid character ',' in numeric literal  
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my json data like this :

{  
"@timestamp": "2016-08-09T08:33:57+08:00",  
"remote\_addr": "10.137.144.15",  
"remote\_user": "-",  
"body\_bytes\_sent": "0",  
"request\_time": 0.002,  
"status": "302",  
"request": "GET /xywh/oauth/oauthCheck?key=classalbum\_list&cropId=wx994c4cbbe6942221 HTTP/1.0",  
"request\_method": "GET",  
"http\_referrer": "-",  
"http\_x\_forwarded\_for": "183.233.134.54, 219.133.40.15, 14.152.90.210",  
"http\_x\_real\_ip": "219.133.40.15",  
"bytes\_sent": 352,  
"upstream\_response\_time": 0.002,  
"http\_user\_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; PRO 6 Build/MRA58K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/37.0.0.0 Mobile MQQBrowser/6.2 TBS/036555 Safari/537.36 MicroMessenger/6.3.22.821 NetType/WIFI Language/zh\_CN"  
}

what's wrong with it?

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### Author: ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-decoding-json-probrom/57559/2 "2016-08-09T10:48:47Z")

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The current json support requires the complete json document to be on one line.

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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: [August 30, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-decoding-json-probrom/57559/3 "2016-08-30T07:41:12Z")

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