# The logs on kibana are truncated in the message field
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 21, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856 "2025-02-21T14:13:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@alessiovitolo25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alessiovitolo25)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856/1 "2025-02-21T14:13:24Z")
The logs on kibana are truncated in the message field ( maximum 1000 characters). If I open the json the message is complete (about 150,000 characters)
It seems to be a kibana limitation problem because even from devtools with the GET command nameindex/\_searchsearch I can see the full message.
The version of Elasticsearch is v 7.17.22
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856/2 "2025-02-26T09:05:55Z")
Hi @alessiovitolo25
how the message field mapped? Is it text or keyword, or rather both?
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### Author:  [@alessiovitolo25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alessiovitolo25)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856/3 "2025-02-26T21:55:46Z")
Hi Marco,
The type is text. I found that in index\_patterns on kibana the format is Trucated String and the field length is 1000!
I did some tests and saw that the problem is due to this.
The fact remains that when I try to disable “set format” after a while I see that the configuration reverts to truncate string.
Is this due to some setting or only users can change it?
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856/4 "2025-02-27T15:26:22Z")
Just to confirm: you mean that dataView configuration changes without any user input when disabling the `set format` on the field?
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### Author:  [@alessiovitolo25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alessiovitolo25)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856/5 "2025-02-28T11:00:45Z")
Yes exactly. That was the question.
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### Author:  [@alessiovitolo25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alessiovitolo25)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856/6 "2025-03-04T22:41:24Z")
Can you give me some advice? Thank you
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856/7 "2025-03-07T13:27:42Z")
It sounds strange to be honest.
I had a look at the issues about this topic but could not find any.
Are you able to reproduce it in a stable way? Can you pinpoint an action that triggers this behaviour?
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### Author:  [@alessiovitolo25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alessiovitolo25)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-logs-on-kibana-are-truncated-in-the-message-field/374856/8 "2025-03-11T23:13:23Z")
Currently I cannot reproduce the problem. Currently after several days of observation the value has remained the same.
At this point I would say to close the report.
Thank you very much for your support