# Logstash to Elastic search, Could not index event to Elasticsearch , "reason"=\>"mapper \[\] of different type, current\_type \[long\], merged\_type \[text\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-to-elastic-search-could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-reason-mapper-of-different-type-current-type-long-merged-type-text/168279>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 13, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-to-elastic-search-could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-reason-mapper-of-different-type-current-type-long-merged-type-text/168279 "2019-02-13T19:37:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![SuperTomcat1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/supertomcat1/32/40899_2.png) [@SuperTomcat1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SuperTomcat1)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-to-elastic-search-could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-reason-mapper-of-different-type-current-type-long-merged-type-text/168279/3 "2019-02-17T01:07:06Z")

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NP badger, problem was resolved thanks to you in other thread! Here is a link for anyone in the future that might run into this issue.

> [@Logstash filter mutate remove\_field inside of an array](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-filter-mutate-remove-field-inside-of-an-array/168503):
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> so i was trying to filter out all references to "volumes.lun-mapping-list" in my json http\_poller input. so this field repeats multiple times but the data is not valuable and its an array inside of the an array so ES doesnt like that at all with the index. Here is my filter i was trying... filter { mutate { remove\_field =\> ["[volumes][lun-mapping-list]0"] } json { source =\> "message" } } which above does NOT wo…

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