diff --git a/graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate/src/main/java/org/graylog/plugins/custom/Base64InflateFunction.java b/graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate/src/main/java/org/graylog/plugins/custom/Base64InflateFunction.java
index dac3bea..68d6770 100644
--- a/graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate/src/main/java/org/graylog/plugins/custom/Base64InflateFunction.java
+++ b/graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate/src/main/java/org/graylog/plugins/custom/Base64InflateFunction.java
@@ -27,18 +27,23 @@ import org.graylog.plugins.pipelineprocessor.ast.functions.FunctionDescriptor;
 import org.graylog.plugins.pipelineprocessor.ast.functions.ParameterDescriptor;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Base64;
-import java.util.zip.Inflater;
-import java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream;
+import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
 import java.net.URLDecoder;
 
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+
 
 // @Function(name = "Base64Inflate", description = "Decodes a URL-safe Base64-encoded and GZIP-compressed string")
 public class Base64InflateFunction extends AbstractFunction<String> {
     
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Base64InflateFunction.class);
+
     public static final String NAME = "urlsafe_base64_decode";
 
     private final ParameterDescriptor<String, String> inputParam = ParameterDescriptor
@@ -57,30 +62,28 @@ public class Base64InflateFunction extends AbstractFunction<String> {
             .build();
     }
 
+
     @Override
     public String evaluate(FunctionArgs args, EvaluationContext context) {
         final String input = inputParam.required(args, context);
-
         try {
-            String urlDecoded = URLDecoder.decode(input, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
-            byte[] base64Decoded = Base64.getDecoder().decode(urlDecoded);
-
-            try (InflaterInputStream inflater = new InflaterInputStream(
-                    new ByteArrayInputStream(base64Decoded), new Inflater(true));
-                 ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
-
-                byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
-                int len;
-                while ((len = inflater.read(buffer)) != -1) {
-                    outputStream.write(buffer, 0, len);
-                }
-
-                return outputStream.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
+            LOG.debug("Received input for Base64Inflate: {}", input);
+            String cleanInput = URLDecoder.decode(input, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
+            byte[] decoded = Base64.getUrlDecoder().decode(cleanInput);
+            try (GZIPInputStream gis = new GZIPInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(decoded))) {
+                byte[] uncompressed = gis.readAllBytes();
+                String result = new String(uncompressed, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+                LOG.debug("Decompressed result: {}", result);
+                return result;
             }
-        } catch (IOException | IllegalArgumentException e) {
-            e.printStackTrace();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOG.error("Base64Inflate failed: {}", e.getMessage(), e);
             return null;
         }
     }
+
+
+
+
 }
 
diff --git a/graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate/target/classes/org/graylog/plugins/custom/Base64InflateFunction.class b/graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate/target/classes/org/graylog/plugins/custom/Base64InflateFunction.class
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diff --git a/graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate/target/original-graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar b/graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate/target/original-graylog-plugin-function-base64inflate-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
index f82d40f..475f2a1 100644
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