# Some logs not work with elasticsearch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-logs-not-work-with-elasticsearch/311182
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 2, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-logs-not-work-with-elasticsearch/311182 "2022-08-02T07:56:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![White\_Hat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/white_hat/32/101868_2.png) [@White\_Hat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/White_Hat)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-logs-not-work-with-elasticsearch/311182/1 "2022-08-02T07:56:33Z")

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I have two logs:

```auto
{"message":"hello","context":{"user_id":"xxxxxx","error":{"ERROR":"Invalid x or y"}},"level":400,"level_name":"ERROR","channel":"production","datetime":"2022-08-02T11:59:02.238022+04:30","extra":{}}

```

and

```auto
{"message":"hello2","context":{"arr":{"ERROR":"Invalid x or y"},"w":"wwwwww","x":"xxxxxx","y":"yyyyyyy","user_id":"xxxxx"},"level":200,"level_name":"INFO","channel":"production","datetime":"2022-08-02T12:08:57.528514+04:30","extra":{}}

```

I cannot see the first log, but the second log can be shown in kibana.  
anyone has an idea?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2022, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-logs-not-work-with-elasticsearch/311182/2 "2022-08-02T08:13:50Z")

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You need to provide a bit more information please.  
How are you indexing things to Elasticsearch?

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### Author: ![White\_Hat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/white_hat/32/101868_2.png) [@White\_Hat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/White_Hat)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-logs-not-work-with-elasticsearch/311182/3 "2022-08-02T08:18:13Z")

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I'm using beats and logstash with simple json filter:

```auto
filter {
  json {
    source => "message"
    target => "message"
  }
}

```

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2022, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-logs-not-work-with-elasticsearch/311182/4 "2022-08-02T08:27:11Z")

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Ok, does Logstash report an error for that event?

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### Author: ![White\_Hat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/white_hat/32/101868_2.png) [@White\_Hat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/White_Hat)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-logs-not-work-with-elasticsearch/311182/5 "2022-08-02T09:39:11Z")

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I found the problem:  
I cannot use ERROR.ERROR  
I must rename the inner ERROR  
but I don't know how!

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### Author: ![White\_Hat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/white_hat/32/101868_2.png) [@White\_Hat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/White_Hat)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-logs-not-work-with-elasticsearch/311182/6 "2022-08-02T12:09:45Z")

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I just rename the ERROR field and now everything is OK.

```auto
  mutate {
    rename => { "[message][context][error]" => "[message][context][prr]" }
  }

```

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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: [August 30, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/some-logs-not-work-with-elasticsearch/311182/7 "2022-08-30T12:10:29Z")

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