# Column alias under Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [March 25, 2016, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/column-alias-under-kibana/45433 "2016-03-25T11:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alainc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@alainc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alainc)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/column-alias-under-kibana/45433/1 "2016-03-25T11:41:48Z")
Hi i tried to get some elasticsearch stats inside kibana extracted by a logstah http\_poller. the name are so huge it's hard to select in drop down list (visualise menu). is there a way to create alias to have shorter name? thnks ---
**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/column-alias-under-kibana/45433/2 "2016-03-25T18:03:59Z")
While there currently isn't support for field aliases (see [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1896](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1896)), there is an advanced setting that could be helpful for you. If you go to Settings, then Advanced, you'll see the `shortDots:enable` setting : ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/f/f21b5fe876875530da96ec01a4a4afedc3ef4e5e.png) Changing this to true will truncate your field names, so that something like "foo.bar.baz" will become "f.b.baz". Hope this helps! ---
**Author:** ![alainc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@alainc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alainc)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/column-alias-under-kibana/45433/3 "2016-03-29T07:29:48Z")
thanks i'll do it ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/column-alias-under-kibana/45433/4 "2017-07-06T13:57:38Z")