# Help on: Can't get text on a START\_OBJECT

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-cant-get-text-on-a-start-object/172193>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-on-cant-get-text-on-a-start-object/172193 "2019-03-13T17:19:02Z")\
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Thank you Steffens,

using your "rename" solution seems to do the job.  
at least, I guess because now, I've another issue concerning the invalid @timestamp format and the 'error' field 😉

anyway,  
I opened a github issue for the @timestamp format,  
and another discussion about the "error" field.

> Hm..., can `host` in your JSON document differ from the host filebeat runs on? If not then we don't need the initial `rename` or `decode_json` processors. Just migrate to `host.name` (remember, ECS), or use the global rename process to move `host.name` to `host` .

I think it differs.  
from what I see in metricbeat, beat.host is supposed to be the short-name, in my log file, host is the long name (more like beat.hostname).

I will look at the default filebeat template, 4556 lines, THAT is huge.

thank you for everything

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