# Getting sporadic MapperParsingException errors for elasticsearch output (logstash 2.2.2)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-sporadic-mapperparsingexception-errors-for-elasticsearch-output-logstash-2-2-2/44874>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 19, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-sporadic-mapperparsingexception-errors-for-elasticsearch-output-logstash-2-2-2/44874 "2016-03-19T00:08:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gerry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gerry)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-sporadic-mapperparsingexception-errors-for-elasticsearch-output-logstash-2-2-2/44874/1 "2016-03-19T00:08:20Z")

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Hi,

I'm using logstash 2.2.2 to read from rabbitmq and post to my ES cluster (1.7.4), and I'm getting occasional "MapperParsingException[object mapping for [email\_queue] tried to parse field [payload] as object, but got EOF, has a concrete value been provided to it?" as an error, but the value under "payload" is clearly an object (i.e. a complex nested hash) when looking at the logs. I tried piping the same json into logstash with a file input, and it indexed without issues. I was running logstash 1.4.2 previously and wasn't getting these issues, but I still got this issue with 2.1.3.

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**Author:** ![ebuildy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ebuildy/32/6070_2.png) [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-sporadic-mapperparsingexception-errors-for-elasticsearch-output-logstash-2-2-2/44874/2 "2016-03-19T17:40:07Z")

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This means the field "mail\_queue.payload" is sometime not an object, hence the mapping conflict reported by elasticsearch.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-sporadic-mapperparsingexception-errors-for-elasticsearch-output-logstash-2-2-2/44874/3 "2017-07-06T05:06:16Z")

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