# Conflict field type in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conflict-field-type-in-kibana/92945>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 13, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conflict-field-type-in-kibana/92945 "2017-07-13T07:00:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jonesthomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Jonesthomas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jonesthomas)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conflict-field-type-in-kibana/92945/1 "2017-07-13T07:00:17Z")

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im getting these conflict field in batterLevel,appMemoryUsage,id but they are integer datatype,  
where Description,deviceId comes under string field

how to resolve it.?

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![annizaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@annizaki](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/annizaki)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conflict-field-type-in-kibana/92945/2 "2017-07-13T08:23:00Z")

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Is that a mapping conflict? If so, your question has been answered here:

> [@How to fix mapping conflict?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-fix-mapping-conflict/55072):
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> I have a few fields (bytesSent, bytesReceived, timetaken) that show mapping conflicts, and thus I cannot visualize them in Kibana. All of these log entries are going to an index "logstash-\*" I am pretty green at this, so how would I go about finding all of the conflicting indexes and fixing or removing them? Here is part of the grok expression used for these conflicting fields in Logstash: %{NUMBER:bytesSent} %{NUMBER:bytesReceived} %{NUMBER:timetaken} And then a mutate (is this even necess…

> [@Mapping conflict!](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-conflict/40248/3):
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> I am new in the ELK world and I didn't understand how to do the reindex. I found this on the guide: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/reindex.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/reindex.html) but it's not compresibile. What are the steps to follow to reindex?

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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:** [August 10, 2017, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conflict-field-type-in-kibana/92945/3 "2017-08-10T08:23:04Z")

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