# Remove JSON formatting?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-json-formatting/236869>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-json-formatting/236869 "2020-06-12T10:27:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![cogz0qj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@cogz0qj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cogz0qj)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-json-formatting/236869/1 "2020-06-12T10:27:28Z")

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FileBeat reads JSON logfile and sends logs to Elasticsearch, but in Kibana discover (selected field **full\_log** ) events are visually unreadable, because of JSON formatting.

Is there any idea please, how to remove JSON formating from full\_log in Kibana, or for example, replace "," with space?

What I have:  
{"win":{"system":{"providerName":"Microsoft-Windows-SoftwareRestrictionPolicies","providerGuid":"{7d29d58a-931a-40ac-8743-48c733045548}","eventID":"865","version":"0","level":"3","task":"0","opcode":"0","keywords":"0x8000000000000000","systemTime":"2020-06-12T08:49:47.443489400Z","eventRecordID":"4061","processID":"8596","threadID":"6032","channel":"Application","computer":"TEST10","severityValue":"WARNING","message":""Access to C:\Users\rabbit\Desktop\putty.exe has been restricted by your Administrator by the default software restriction policy level.""},"path":{"attemptedPath":"C:\\Users\\rabbit\\Desktop\\putty.exe"}}}

What I wish:  
win: system: providerName: Microsoft-Windows-SoftwareRestrictionPolicies providerGuid: {7d29d58a-931a-40ac-8743-48c733045548} eventID: 865 version: 0 level: 3 task: 0 opcode: 0 keywords: 0x8000000000000000 systemTime: 2020-06-12T08:49:47.443489400Z eventRecordID: 4061 processID: 8596 threadID: 6032 channel: Application computer: TEST10 severityValue: WARNING message: "Access to C:\Users\rabbit\Desktop\putty.exe has been restricted by your Administrator by the default software restriction policy level." path: attemptedPath: C:\Users\rabbit\Desktop\putty.exe

Thank you!

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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 12, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-json-formatting/236869/2 "2020-07-12T23:38:25Z")

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