# Is it possible to show surrounding log messages as a plain-text flow?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-show-surrounding-log-messages-as-a-plain-text-flow/113307
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [December 27, 2017, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-show-surrounding-log-messages-as-a-plain-text-flow/113307 "2017-12-27T11:31:28Z")
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### Author:  [@Asaf\_Shabat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Asaf_Shabat)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2017, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-show-surrounding-log-messages-as-a-plain-text-flow/113307/1 "2017-12-27T11:31:29Z")
I'm using the "View surrounding documents" option in order to show some related logs for a specific log, and this makes me ask the following question:
Is it possible to show the related messages log as a plain-text, so I can see the messages one after the other without to expend each row?
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### Author:  [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-show-surrounding-log-messages-as-a-plain-text-flow/113307/2 "2017-12-27T18:33:03Z")
Not currently, it's stuck reusing the table used in discover search. I couldn't find any existing issues for this so I think it's reasonable to file an enhancement request at [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new).
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### Author:  [@Asaf\_Shabat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Asaf_Shabat)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-show-surrounding-log-messages-as-a-plain-text-flow/113307/3 "2017-12-28T12:00:57Z")
I opened a feature, thanks a lot.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-show-surrounding-log-messages-as-a-plain-text-flow/113307/4 "2018-01-25T12:00:59Z")
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