### Author:  [@qylw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qylw)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-jenkins-xml-using-logstash/133863/1 "2018-05-30T11:29:35Z")
Hey there,
I'm trying to parse jenkins build.xml files via filebeat/logstash.
The documents gets transferred from filebeat fine, I see the documents in kibana that contains the full content, but easy xpath:
```
filter
{
xml
{
source => "message"
store_xml => true
target => "log"
xpath => [
"/log/flow-build/queueId/text()", "queueId"
]
}
}
```
is failing.
The error I'm getting from logstash is:
`[2018-05-30T11:19:08,124][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Could not index event to Elasticsearch. {:status=>400, :action=>["index", {:_id=>nil, :_index=>"filebeat-2018.05.30", :_type=>"doc", :_routing=>nil}, #], :response=>{"index"=>{"_index"=>"filebeat-2018.05.30", "_type"=>"doc", "_id"=>"TVXFsGMBFEFgAXJp37H0", "status"=>400, "error"=>{"type"=>"illegal_argument_exception", "reason"=>"Limit of mapping depth [20] in index [filebeat-2018.05.30] has been exceeded due to object field [log.actions.org.jenkinsci.plugins.pipeline.modeldefinition.actions.ExecutionModelAction.stagesList.org.jenkinsci.plugins.pipeline.modeldefinition.ast.ModelASTStages.stages.org.jenkinsci.plugins.pipeline.modeldefinition.ast.ModelASTStage.branches.org.jenkinsci.plugins.pipeline.modeldefinition.ast.ModelASTBranch.steps.org.jenkinsci.plugins.pipeline.modeldefinition.ast.ModelASTTreeStep.children.org.jenkinsci.plugins.pipeline.modeldefinition.ast.ModelASTScriptBlock.args.arguments.entry.org]"}}}}`
Do I read it correctly that the XML too complex to be parsed? Is there anything I can do to be parsable by logstash? Or should I switch to regexp/grok?
Regards,
Roman
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-jenkins-xml-using-logstash/133863/2 "2018-05-30T11:58:10Z")
It's not the parsing that fails, it's Elasticsearch that doesn't like the resulting nesting depth. Do you really need to store the full JSON representation of the XML?
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### Author:  [@qylw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qylw)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-jenkins-xml-using-logstash/133863/3 "2018-05-30T12:09:51Z")
No I don't. I wish to store set of interesting fields only. How do I disable to store the full JSON representation?
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### Author:  [@qylw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qylw)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-jenkins-xml-using-logstash/133863/4 "2018-05-30T12:29:57Z")
> [@qylw](#):
>
> store\_xml =\> false
isn't it?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-jenkins-xml-using-logstash/133863/5 "2018-05-30T12:42:48Z")
Yes, disable `store_xml` (then you can also remove the `target` setting).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-jenkins-xml-using-logstash/133863/6 "2018-06-27T12:42:49Z")
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