# Issues analysing elastic traffic

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-analysing-elastic-traffic/182963
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** packetbeat
**Created:** [May 27, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-analysing-elastic-traffic/182963 "2019-05-27T20:01:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![humartinez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/humartinez/32/46395_2.png) [@humartinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/humartinez)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-analysing-elastic-traffic/182963/1 "2019-05-27T20:01:39Z")

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Hi,  
Im trying to analyze the queries that came to my ES cluster, I manage to install packetbeat to analyze the http traffic that cames to the port 9200, and Im getting the request (and responses) but Im also having a lot of errors, this is one of the most recurrents

> **POST /\_bulk: first path segment in URL cannot contain colon**

The log is quite huge, Im thinking, maybe I should send the logs to logstash and remove the colon, but I don't know which one is the offending field.

Thanks in advance

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### Author: ![adrisr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adrisr/32/25423_2.png) [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-analysing-elastic-traffic/182963/2 "2019-05-29T07:55:14Z")

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Hi,

Which version of Packetbeat are you using?

Does that error appear in Packetbeat log? Can you paste the full log, including timestamps, so I can see where this error is coming from?

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### Author: ![humartinez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/humartinez/32/46395_2.png) [@humartinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/humartinez)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-analysing-elastic-traffic/182963/3 "2019-05-29T13:48:57Z")

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Hi im using 6.8.0, I think that the error ocurred when I enable this:

`> include_body_for: ["text/html", "application/json"]`

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### Author: ![adrisr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adrisr/32/25423_2.png) [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-analysing-elastic-traffic/182963/4 "2019-05-29T14:20:01Z")

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Can you paste a log snippet so I can see where this error is coming from?

> [@humartinez](#):
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> > include\_body\_for: ["text/html", "application/json"]

Can you confirm by testing with and without this setting?

Is it possible that you capture a `.pcap` file that reproduces this issue? (run packetbeat with the `--dump file.pcap` parameter).

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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: [June 26, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-analysing-elastic-traffic/182963/5 "2019-06-26T14:20:03Z")

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