# Messages in Kibana appear truncated

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-in-kibana-appear-truncated/239381>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-in-kibana-appear-truncated/239381 "2020-06-30T23:41:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![TomWBM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@TomWBM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TomWBM)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-in-kibana-appear-truncated/239381/1 "2020-06-30T23:41:00Z")

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I have an ELK implementation on a single server as a test box, I am receiving log data from a Mulesoft cluster via Filebeats at the source, received by Logstash at the server. When I view what should be a 3000+ line of log message in Kibana, I only get the first 500 lines.

Looking at the raw JSON document, I see the log.flag set to truncated multiline in the document.

How can I influence this behavior to allow all lines from the original message to pass unaltered?

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**Author:** ![rugenl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rugenl/32/12887_2.png) [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-in-kibana-appear-truncated/239381/2 "2020-06-30T23:58:02Z")

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Look at this [doc page](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/multiline-examples.html), **`multiline.max_lines`** defaults to 500.

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**Author:** ![TomWBM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@TomWBM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TomWBM)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-in-kibana-appear-truncated/239381/3 "2020-07-01T00:48:23Z")

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Thanks Len. Looks like this should be pretty easy - I've added "multiline.maxlines: 4000" to the affected log entries. I should be able to modify them on server tomorrow and have the dev team test tomorrow 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:** [July 29, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/messages-in-kibana-appear-truncated/239381/4 "2020-07-29T00:48:25Z")

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