# Parsing JSON with filebeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-json-with-filebeat/165489
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-json-with-filebeat/165489 "2019-01-23T22:06:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@bladerunner512](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bladerunner512)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-json-with-filebeat/165489/1 "2019-01-23T22:06:54Z")
Trying to ship single-line JSON in log file directly to Elasticsearch, but getting entire line with "message" as key:
```auto
January 23rd 2019, 15:51:15.634
@timestamp:January 23rd 2019, 15:51:15.634
source:/usr/share/filebeat/logs/gen_log_test.log offset:8,487,442
message:{"msg":"Hello from thread# 14 for log#176","sub":"GenerateTestLogs","orig":"genlogs-dev-tsvgk","sev":"INFO","line":85,"proj":"Logging","cl":"com.logging.GenerateTestLogs","ts":"2019-01-23T19:34:53:0428Z"}
prospector.type:log
beat.version:6.2.1
beat.name:fb-logs-74895b8df7-mlz2v
beat.hostname:fb-logs-74895b8df7-mlz2v _id:CfeyfGgB62cDz7C-N4Ra
_type:doc
_index:filebeat-6.2.1-2019.01.23
_score: -
```
```auto
filebeat.prospectors:
- paths:
- /var/log/mylog.json
json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
```
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### Author:  [@bladerunner512](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bladerunner512)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-json-with-filebeat/165489/2 "2019-01-25T17:34:11Z")
ConfigMap error not replacing filebeat.yml with correct values for prospector.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-json-with-filebeat/165489/3 "2019-02-22T17:44:06Z")
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