diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/commons/notifications/model/BaseModel.kt b/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/commons/notifications/model/BaseModel.kt
index 5ead5594..056fcc6e 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/commons/notifications/model/BaseModel.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/commons/notifications/model/BaseModel.kt
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 package org.opensearch.commons.notifications.model
 
 import org.opensearch.common.io.stream.Writeable
-import org.opensearch.common.xcontent.ToXContent
+import org.opensearch.common.xcontent.ToXContentObject
 
 /**
  * interface for representing objects.
  */
-interface BaseModel : Writeable, ToXContent
+interface BaseModel : Writeable, ToXContentObject
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/commons/notifications/model/NotificationEvent.kt b/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/commons/notifications/model/NotificationEvent.kt
index 6bc49d5f..2ab5426b 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/commons/notifications/model/NotificationEvent.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/commons/notifications/model/NotificationEvent.kt
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ data class NotificationEvent(
         return try {
             XContentHelper.toXContent(this, XContentType.JSON, EMPTY_PARAMS, true).utf8ToString()
         } catch (e: IOException) {
+            log.debug("Failed to convert NotificationEvent to string", e)
             super.toString() + " threw " + e.toString()
         }
     }