# Message: "failed to find message" in Kibana Logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-failed-to-find-message-in-kibana-logs/210522>\
**Category:** Logs\
**Created:** [December 4, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-failed-to-find-message-in-kibana-logs/210522 "2019-12-04T11:30:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jmteba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jmteba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jmteba)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-failed-to-find-message-in-kibana-logs/210522/1 "2019-12-04T11:30:35Z")

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Hello,

We have a problem when we try to see logs from Kibana "Logs", so we get this message:  
"failed to find message",

[failed\_to\_find\_message|690x424](https://discuss.elastic.co/uploads/short-url/POKxejjfc1CPxa7DERNTD6q5GS.png)

but in this path there are multiple log's files.

[failed\_to\_find\_message\_server|530x121](https://discuss.elastic.co/uploads/short-url/r1dE4JbiC3eqCKhBFCdk0aYPXBf.png) !

By the other hand, we see this logs in "Discover"

 ![failed_to_find_message_discover](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/e/ee5034afc07b6fda85f9f628cc28a3c91642e013.png) !

But it seems that there is some wrong in Kibana "Logs"  
I need to do something to achieve get my full logs here?

Thanks! 🙂

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-failed-to-find-message-in-kibana-logs/210522/2 "2019-12-10T09:55:02Z")

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Hi @jmteba,

the Logs app in Kibana expects the log documents to adhere to the [ECS](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/index.html) schema. In this case that means that it expects the timestamp to be in the `@timestamp` field and the message to be in `message`.

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**Author:** ![jmteba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jmteba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jmteba)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-failed-to-find-message-in-kibana-logs/210522/3 "2019-12-10T11:08:06Z")

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Hi @weltenwort thanks for your answer,  
You are right! My problem was that I was changing "message" field to "message\_log", so really "message" field didn't exist.  
I have changed in Kibana Logs the "Log Columns" to add "message\_logs" and it works now!

Thanks 🙂

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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:** [January 7, 2020, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-failed-to-find-message-in-kibana-logs/210522/4 "2020-01-07T11:08:10Z")

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