# 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")
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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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