# Event Definitions cannot loading

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667 "2020-03-26T16:34:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Berk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Berk](https://community.graylog.org/u/Berk)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/1 "2020-03-26T16:34:50Z")

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Hello,

We have graylog Graylog 3.1.4. We created two event definitions 2 months ago with email notificaitons, but now when i try to click event definitions it stucks at loading part like below;

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/2X/6/697d40022d68ca623361fff7c7245874cfb3ff75.png)

When I checked the logs;

```
    2020-03-26T18:44:53.352+03:00 ERROR [AnyExceptionClassMapper] Unhandled exception in REST resource
java.lang.RuntimeException: IOException encountered while reading from a byte array input stream
        at org.mongojack.internal.stream.JacksonDBDecoder.decode(JacksonDBDecoder.java:67) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.DBDecoderAdapter.decode(DBDecoderAdapter.java:49) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.DBDecoderAdapter.decode(DBDecoderAdapter.java:29) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.CommandResultArrayCodec.decode(CommandResultArrayCodec.java:52) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.CommandResultDocumentCodec.readValue(CommandResultDocumentCodec.java:60) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.bson.codecs.BsonDocumentCodec.decode(BsonDocumentCodec.java:84) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.bson.codecs.BsonDocumentCodec.decode(BsonDocumentCodec.java:41) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.bson.codecs.configuration.LazyCodec.decode(LazyCodec.java:47) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.bson.codecs.BsonDocumentCodec.readValue(BsonDocumentCodec.java:101) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.CommandResultDocumentCodec.readValue(CommandResultDocumentCodec.java:63) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.bson.codecs.BsonDocumentCodec.decode(BsonDocumentCodec.java:84) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.bson.codecs.BsonDocumentCodec.decode(BsonDocumentCodec.java:41) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.ReplyMessage.<init>(ReplyMessage.java:51) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.InternalStreamConnection.receiveCommandMessageResponse(InternalStreamConnection.java:301) ~[gray log.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.InternalStreamConnection.sendAndReceive(InternalStreamConnection.java:255) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.UsageTrackingInternalConnection.sendAndReceive(UsageTrackingInternalConnection.java:98) ~[graylo g.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.DefaultConnectionPool$PooledConnection.sendAndReceive(DefaultConnectionPool.java:441) ~[graylog. jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.CommandProtocolImpl.execute(CommandProtocolImpl.java:80) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.DefaultServer$DefaultServerProtocolExecutor.execute(DefaultServer.java:189) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.DefaultServerConnection.executeProtocol(DefaultServerConnection.java:264) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.DefaultServerConnection.command(DefaultServerConnection.java:126) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.connection.DefaultServerConnection.command(DefaultServerConnection.java:118) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.CommandOperationHelper.executeWrappedCommandProtocol(CommandOperationHelper.java:226) ~[graylog.j ar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.CommandOperationHelper.executeWrappedCommandProtocol(CommandOperationHelper.java:217) ~[graylog.j ar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.CommandOperationHelper.executeWrappedCommandProtocol(CommandOperationHelper.java:120) ~[graylog.j ar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.FindOperation$1.call(FindOperation.java:717) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.FindOperation$1.call(FindOperation.java:711) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.OperationHelper.withConnectionSource(OperationHelper.java:471) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.OperationHelper.withConnection(OperationHelper.java:415) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.FindOperation.execute(FindOperation.java:711) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.operation.FindOperation.execute(FindOperation.java:83) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.Mongo$3.execute(Mongo.java:826) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.Mongo$3.execute(Mongo.java:813) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.DBCursor.initializeCursor(DBCursor.java:877) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.mongodb.DBCursor.hasNext(DBCursor.java:144) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.mongojack.DBCursor.hasNext(DBCursor.java:330) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at java.util.Iterator.forEachRemaining(Iterator.java:132) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.Spliterators$IteratorSpliterator.forEachRemaining(Spliterators.java:1801) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:484) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(AbstractPipeline.java:474) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.stream.ReduceOps$ReduceOp.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:913) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.stream.ReduceOps$5.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:257) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.stream.ReduceOps$5.evaluateSequential(ReduceOps.java:248) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(AbstractPipeline.java:234) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.stream.ReferencePipeline.count(ReferencePipeline.java:605) ~[?:?]
        at org.graylog2.database.PaginatedDbService.findPaginatedWithQueryFilterAndSort(PaginatedDbService.java:158) ~[graylog.jar :?]
        at org.graylog.events.processor.DBEventDefinitionService.searchPaginated(DBEventDefinitionService.java:52) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.graylog.events.rest.EventDefinitionsResource.list(EventDefinitionsResource.java:106) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:?]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:?]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:?]
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:567) ~[?:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory$1.invoke(ResourceMethodInvocationHand lerFactory.java:81) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher$1.run(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatc her.java:144) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.invoke(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispat cher.java:161) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider$TypeOutInvoker.doDispatch(JavaResourceM ethodDispatcherProvider.java:205) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.dispatch(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDisp atcher.java:99) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.invoke(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:389) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:347) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:102) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime$2.run(ServerRuntime.java:326) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:271) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:267) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:315) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:297) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:267) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScope.runInScope(RequestScope.java:317) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime.process(ServerRuntime.java:305) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.handle(ApplicationHandler.java:1154) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.jersey.grizzly2.httpserver.GrizzlyHttpContainer.service(GrizzlyHttpContainer.java:384) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler$1.run(HttpHandler.java:224) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.codahale.metrics.InstrumentedExecutorService$InstrumentedRunnable.run(InstrumentedExecutorService.java:181) ~[grayl og.jar:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) ~[?:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:830) ~[?:?]
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "query_parameters" (class org.gray log.events.processor.aggregation.AutoValue_AggregationEventProcessorConfig$Builder), not marked as ignorable (8 known properties: "streams", "execute_every_ms", "series", "query", "type", "search_within_ms", "group_by", "conditions"])
 at [Source: de.undercouch.bson4jackson.io.LittleEndianInputStream@11c2ad18; pos: 290] (through reference chain: org.graylog.event s.processor.$AutoValue_EventDefinitionDto$Builder["config"]->org.graylog.events.processor.aggregation.AutoValue_AggregationEventPr ocessorConfig$Builder["query_parameters"])
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException.from(UnrecognizedPropertyException.java:63) ~[graylog. jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handleUnknownProperty(DeserializationContext.java:834) ~[graylog. jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.StdDeserializer.handleUnknownProperty(StdDeserializer.java:1093) ~[graylog.jar :?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.handleUnknownProperty(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1489) ~[grayl og.jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.handleUnknownVanilla(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1467) ~[graylo g.jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BuilderBasedDeserializer.deserializeFromObject(BuilderBasedDeserializer.java:317) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BuilderBasedDeserializer.deserialize(BuilderBasedDeserializer.java:178) ~[graylog. jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.impl.AsPropertyTypeDeserializer._deserializeTypedForId(AsPropertyTypeDeserializ er.java:129) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.impl.AsPropertyTypeDeserializer.deserializeTypedFromObject(AsPropertyTypeDeseri alizer.java:97) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.AbstractDeserializer.deserializeWithType(AbstractDeserializer.java:209) ~[graylog. jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.SettableBeanProperty.deserialize(SettableBeanProperty.java:502) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.impl.MethodProperty.deserializeSetAndReturn(MethodProperty.java:116) ~[graylog.jar :?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BuilderBasedDeserializer.vanillaDeserialize(BuilderBasedDeserializer.java:266) ~[g raylog.jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BuilderBasedDeserializer.deserialize(BuilderBasedDeserializer.java:154) ~[graylog. jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3786) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:2181) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.mongojack.internal.stream.JacksonDBDecoder.decode(JacksonDBDecoder.java:80) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        at org.mongojack.internal.stream.JacksonDBDecoder.decode(JacksonDBDecoder.java:64) ~[graylog.jar:?]
        ... 74 more

```

Do you have any recommendations to overcome this issue?

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**Author:** ![Ponet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/ponet/32/2131_2.png) [@Ponet](https://community.graylog.org/u/Ponet)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/2 "2020-03-26T16:40:28Z")

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What has been changed between the initial creation of those event definitions and now?

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**Author:** ![Berk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Berk](https://community.graylog.org/u/Berk)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/3 "2020-03-26T16:47:29Z")

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The elasticsearch indexes which are belongs to graylog events are re-created.

Also i can list and create new notifications without any problems.

Thank you for your quick reply.

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**Author:** ![Ponet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/ponet/32/2131_2.png) [@Ponet](https://community.graylog.org/u/Ponet)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/4 "2020-03-26T16:58:15Z")

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Elasticsearch will have no effect on this.

Elasticsearch is only used for storing messages ingested by Graylog.

Event definitions, notifications and other Graylog components (dashboards, pipelines, etc) are stored in Mongodb.

Has Graylog been updated since the creation of those event definitions?

The one line from the error that caught my interest is:

```auto
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "query_parameters" (class org.graylog.events.processor.aggregation.AutoValue_AggregationEventProcessorConfig$Builder), not marked as ignorable (8 known properties: "streams", "execute_every_ms", "series", "query", "type", "search_within_ms", "group_by", "conditions"])

```

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**Author:** ![Berk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Berk](https://community.graylog.org/u/Berk)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/5 "2020-03-26T17:07:44Z")

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Recently, we have upgraded our servers from version 3.1.4 to 3.2.1 but, somehow, there were some unexpected problems with dashboards and sidecars. Therefore, we had to rollback our graylog to version 3.1.4.

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**Author:** ![Ponet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/ponet/32/2131_2.png) [@Ponet](https://community.graylog.org/u/Ponet)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/6 "2020-03-26T17:13:45Z")

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That /might/ have caused this problem.

IIRC there were some changes made to the alerting/event system between 3.1 and 3.2 so, when you upgraded to 3.2 your event definitions will have been migrated to the new format.

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**Author:** ![Berk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Berk](https://community.graylog.org/u/Berk)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/7 "2020-03-26T17:25:19Z")

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Thank you for your information. I think we should have made a backup of our mongodb before upgrading to 3.2.1, but i think unfortunately we did not make a backup. Is there any way to repeair it to the old format?

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**Author:** ![Ponet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/ponet/32/2131_2.png) [@Ponet](https://community.graylog.org/u/Ponet)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/8 "2020-03-26T20:39:25Z")

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I’m not sure of specifics of the changes to be honest.

The easiest option might be to just delete the event definitions out of the mongodb which should at least resolve the loading issue and allow you to recreate the event definitions.

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**Author:** ![jan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jan/32/11_2.png) [@jan](https://community.graylog.org/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/9 "2020-03-29T11:37:01Z")

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@Berk

go to the latest bugfix release of Graylog - that should fix the problem.

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**Author:** ![Berk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Berk](https://community.graylog.org/u/Berk)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/10 "2020-04-05T14:44:27Z")

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@Ponet thank you so much for your help. This solved our problem 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/event-definitions-cannot-loading/14667/11 "2020-04-19T14:44:32Z")

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