# Storing logs containing several different XML types/schemas into ES
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-logs-containing-several-different-xml-types-schemas-into-es/207764
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 13, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-logs-containing-several-different-xml-types-schemas-into-es/207764 "2019-11-13T18:59:49Z")
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### Author:  [@zenluiz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zenluiz)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-logs-containing-several-different-xml-types-schemas-into-es/207764/1 "2019-11-13T18:59:49Z")
Hi,
I have millions of lines of logs that I want to index in ES, using Filebeat + Logstash.
Each log line can have a different XML that represents a SOAP message that has been received by a WebService and logged, like in this example:
```
2019-11-13 10:00:1234 1234
2019-11-12 09:30:5678 Position1
2019-11-11 08:30:5678 1234567Position29876
```
In the real case, there are around 100 possible XML messages received by this web service, so I wanted to make the logs easier to read by storing the XML, using **store\_xml =\> true** option in the xml filter in Logstash. Also, I am using **XPath** to extract every single possible element from the XMLs (yes, a heck of a tedious job) into separate fields.
Problems are:
1. Creating XPath for each element is too much work, but more than that, if there is any change on any of the XML schemas (or new elements), I would need to change the logstash config as well. I would like to avoid that.
2. To avoid that, I thought on removing the XPaths and work with the fields that the XML filter plugin generates. However, doing that brings another problem: since there are too many combinations / elements in XMLs, I get many error messages saying the limit of 1000 fields has been reached. That's because it generates the following fields for the example I gave above:
So, the question is: does anyone have any experience with a situation similar to this one? Any recommendation? Maybe I am missing something, a configuration to limits, etc.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-logs-containing-several-different-xml-types-schemas-into-es/207764/2 "2019-12-11T18:59:51Z")
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