# Can't load metricbeat data: Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-load-metricbeat-data-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/193178
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [July 31, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-load-metricbeat-data-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/193178 "2019-07-31T16:23:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@carson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carson)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-load-metricbeat-data-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/193178/1 "2019-07-31T16:23:29Z")
I'm not sure what caused this, possibly my previous attempt to use logstash, or an index I once tried on metricbeat. I now send beats directly to elasticsearch. I'm using 7.1 for all parts of the ELK stack.
From the Infrastructure screen, if I click "View Metrics" on a host, I get an error in elasticsearch:
```
"Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [host.name] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory. Alternatively use a keyword field instead.",
"at org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.TextFieldMapper$TextFieldType.fielddataBuilder(TextFieldMapper.java:767) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.0.jar:7.1.0]",
"at org.elasticsearch.index.fielddata.IndexFieldDataService.getForField(IndexFieldDataService.java:116) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.0.jar:7.1.0]",
...
```
**Things I've tried**
- Deleting all indices
- Deleting all templates
- Query using curl to try and fix the mapping, but cannot form the correct syntax for query
Please let me know other things I can try. This is breaking my metric data visualization, and I'm considering rolling back to 6.7 as I've seen that suggested.
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### Author:  [@nitzan.karni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nitzan.karni)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-load-metricbeat-data-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/193178/2 "2019-08-01T12:20:20Z")
Go to infrastructure -\> Configuration
Under Fields section theres Host name Input for the host name field
change it from host.name to host.name.keyword
that should do the job.
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### Author:  [@carson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carson)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-load-metricbeat-data-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/193178/3 "2019-08-01T13:58:15Z")
I found the issue. I was somehow using an older version of the `metricbeat.yml` file. Once I got a fresh YML file and configured it, everything works as expected. This was a huge headache and I hope this helps someone as not many people have had this issue it seems. 😄
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-load-metricbeat-data-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/193178/4 "2019-08-29T13:58:17Z")
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