# Problem in json extractor

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/problem-in-json-extractor/11387>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/problem-in-json-extractor/11387 "2019-07-29T16:38:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![pine1455](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@pine1455](https://community.graylog.org/u/pine1455)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/problem-in-json-extractor/11387/1 "2019-07-29T16:38:34Z")

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Hi,  
I am new in graylog. It should be an easy question, sorry!  
I have a json log messages but can not run my extractor. I think the problem is program name and pid(program[91129]: ) in the beginning of the message body. any way to omit this part?!

sample message body:

program[91129]: {“timestamp”: “2019-07-29”, “flow\_id”: 1964529267423472, “in\_iface”: “eth0”, “event\_type”: “dns”, “src\_ip”: “192.168.10.6”, “src\_port”: 45885, “dest\_ip”: “8.8.8.8”, “dest\_port”: 53, “proto”: “UDP”, “dns”: {“type”: “query”, “id”: 1989, “rrname”: “[detertal.firefox.com](http://detertal.firefox.com)”, “rrtype”: “A”, “tx\_id”: 0}}

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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:** [July 30, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/problem-in-json-extractor/11387/2 "2019-07-30T06:52:08Z")

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you might want to switch to the processing pipelines for messages extraction.

But - you have nested json as logfile what is currently not supported: [https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/issues/5945](https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/issues/5945)  
So - sorry no real answer here to your question if that is the reason or not.

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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:** [August 13, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/problem-in-json-extractor/11387/3 "2019-08-13T06:52:10Z")

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