Auditd module's kibana dashboards do not use keyword fields

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Kibana dashboards and visualizations for auditd module do not use keyword fields for aggregation queries in my version 6.8.4. This is the case for latest upstream too though:

This led to dashboards not working properly since fielddata is disabled by default for text fields. I managed to make them work again, by editing the jsons and using keyword fields.

Is there a reason that upstream uses text fields for aggregation queries ? Does it make sense to send a PR for it?

Thank you,
Kostis

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What specific fields are seeing indexed as text? Most things are keyword, but there are a few places where multi-fields have been used to index both as keyword and text.

Maybe you don't have the Auditbeat index template installed?

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Ah yeah, that could be it, thanks! If Elasticsearch has already loaded documents,I guess I can load the template retroactively then, and Kibana will honor the new new template for new index documents? Is that right?