# Log file displaying as a string message

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-file-displaying-as-a-string-message/193883>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 5, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-file-displaying-as-a-string-message/193883 "2019-08-05T20:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![cjb312](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@cjb312](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjb312)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-file-displaying-as-a-string-message/193883/1 "2019-08-05T20:15:11Z")

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I am using filebeat to ingest a log file so I can view it on Kibana but on Kibana the log file comes up as this:

```
`"#fields\tts\tid\tcertificate.version\tcertificate.serial\tcertificate.subject\tcertificate.issuer\tcertificate.not_valid_before\tcertificate.not_valid_after\tcertificate.key_alg\tcertificate.sig_alg\tcertificate.key_type\tcertificate.key_length\tcertificate.exponent\tcertificate.curve\tsan.dns\tsan.uri\tsan.email\t@kibana-highlighted-field@san.ip@/kibana-highlighted-field@\tbasic_constraints.ca\tbasic_constraints.path_len"`

```

How can I parse this?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Michal\_Pristas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michal_pristas/32/46639_2.png) [@Michal\_Pristas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michal_Pristas)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-file-displaying-as-a-string-message/193883/2 "2019-08-06T12:23:55Z")

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can you check filebeat debug logs and see if this is what is actually emitted?  
you can do this by running filebeat with `-d` or specifying `logging.level` to `debug` in a config

also your configuration file would help as well

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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:** [September 3, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-file-displaying-as-a-string-message/193883/3 "2019-09-03T12:24:08Z")

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