# Adding sorting feature to Kibana fields

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-sorting-feature-to-kibana-fields/252157
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 15, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-sorting-feature-to-kibana-fields/252157 "2020-10-15T09:00:01Z")
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### Author: ![rdkgn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@rdkgn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rdkgn)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-sorting-feature-to-kibana-fields/252157/1 "2020-10-15T09:00:01Z")

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Hello,  
I am unable to add SORTING (Arrows for ascending and descending sort) to my custom fields added to Kibana. My present GROK pattern is as below. I want to add sorting for TIME , Please help

```auto
**match => { "message" => "\[%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:Log_time}\]\[.*?\]\[%{LOGLEVEL:loglevel}\].*"**

```

 ![Kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/1/c1db7035e40b8d5774b1563b477f5adeec1644fb.png)

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### Author: ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-sorting-feature-to-kibana-fields/252157/2 "2020-10-15T20:55:31Z")

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hi @rdkgn

not sure if I follow 100%. You would like to sort on the `loglevel` column in Discover?

Sorting only works for ordinal field-types, like dates en numbers, and _not_ for keyword or text-fields. I would create an enhancement request here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new/choose](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new/choose)

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### Author: ![rdkgn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@rdkgn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rdkgn)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2020, 6:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-sorting-feature-to-kibana-fields/252157/3 "2020-10-19T06:57:32Z")

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Hi @thomasneirynck neirynck

Thanks for your reply. Let me clarify you. 
I want to sort only `Log_time` column (and nothing else), Please help.

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### Author: ![rdkgn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@rdkgn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rdkgn)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-sorting-feature-to-kibana-fields/252157/4 "2020-10-21T05:54:12Z")

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Hi,  
Did you get any solution for my issue?

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-sorting-feature-to-kibana-fields/252157/5 "2020-11-18T05:54:16Z")

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