In 6.2 this config input { generator { message => '<a>1</a>' count => 1 } } output { stdout { codec => rubydebug } } filter { xml { source => "message" xpath => { "/a" => "a" "/a" => "b" } } } get the extraordinarily unhelpful error message [2018-04-09T17…

Oy, that is definitely unhelpful. I've filed a PR to fix: elastic/logstash#9343 In the mean-time, maps with multiple values for the same key don't typically work out well (last entry wins); what is it you're trying to accomplish?

[image] yaauie: what is it you're trying to accomplish? It was not intentional .

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Unhelpful error message for duplicate xpath reference in xml filter

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It was not intentional.

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Unhelpful error message for duplicate xpath reference in xml filter

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