# 5.1.1: Discover error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-1-1-discover-error/70940
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-1-1-discover-error/70940 "2017-01-09T11:56:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-1-1-discover-error/70940/1 "2017-01-09T11:56:55Z")
Hi,
I'm getting errors in kibana after configuring against new elasticsearch 5.1.1 cluster:
```
Saved "field" parameter is now invalid. Please select a new field.
Discover: "field" is a required parameter
```
The only data being indexed to elasticsearch atm is logstash heartbeat data...
Regards,
David
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### Author:  [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-1-1-discover-error/70940/2 "2017-01-09T16:07:36Z")
This looks like it's a bug, we have an open issue for it [here](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/9571). Do you have any other index patterns in kibana? Are you using a template with your elasticsearch output?
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### Author:  [@Sushil\_Singh1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sushil_Singh1)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-1-1-discover-error/70940/3 "2017-01-10T04:58:08Z")
Hi,
I'm also getting same error.
Elasticsearch and kibana latest (5.1.1) downloaded and installed as per docs.
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### Author:  [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-1-1-discover-error/70940/4 "2017-01-10T11:55:08Z")
Hi,
I have only one index pattern and yes, am using a template for our logs.
Regards,
David
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### Author:  [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-1-1-discover-error/70940/5 "2017-01-11T08:22:04Z")
What may be a factor here is that we are using the mapper-size plugin. So, each document is being indexed with an '\_size' field. Kibana sees this as type 'unknown' and so i presume that is the trigger for what I'm seeing?
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### Author:  [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-1-1-discover-error/70940/6 "2017-01-12T11:21:00Z")
Hi,
I think I've resolved this. I had fields in my template, including @timestamp which were set to:
`"index" : "not_analyzed"`
Reading the 5.x docs more closely i realised that while types have changed to mapping definitions for field analysis have changed as a result. So, changing that to true, ensuring that string type mapping were set correctly (keyword/text) and then recreating the index and kibana index pattern allowed the discover interface to start working.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-1-1-discover-error/70940/7 "2017-02-09T11:21:02Z")
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