# Dashboard filter does not find index fields **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\ **Created:** [June 16, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-does-not-find-index-fields/276156 "2021-06-16T14:54:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Juan\_David\_Jaramillo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juan_david_jaramillo/32/76831_2.png) [@Juan\_David\_Jaramillo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_David_Jaramillo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-does-not-find-index-fields/276156/1 "2021-06-16T14:54:15Z")
Hello good, I have a question, I am monitoring equipment and in the dashboard I made I have data from several indexes, what arises here is a problem, as I will filter by the (sysname) of a team and I do not get the field, what I have seen is that I get data only from an index of netflow, and not snmp where I have the other data. how can I make a filter for a specific index? Thanks You... ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/0/b0122d4b1910dc67c79fe447fc74aa3c8f999763.png) ---
**Author:** ![dosant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dosant/32/64489_2.png) [@dosant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dosant)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-does-not-find-index-fields/276156/2 "2021-06-16T15:22:04Z")
@Juan_David_Jaramillo, what Kibana version are you at? Visualizations should "report" to the filter bar the index patterns they are using. If more than a single index pattern is used, then the filter bar should allow picking an index pattern when creating a filter. There was a problem with some visualizations (e.g. Time-series was one of them), that they didn't report the underlying index pattern, hence their index pattern was not available inside the filter bar on a dashboard. I think this was fixed around 7.12.0-7.13.0 (don't know the exact version, but I can look it up if needed). If you use an older version, then you could try to add an aggregation-based visualization (e.g. a pie chart) with a `sysname` index pattern to that Dashboard, and then this index pattern should be available inside the filter editor. ---
**Author:** ![Juan\_David\_Jaramillo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juan_david_jaramillo/32/76831_2.png) [@Juan\_David\_Jaramillo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_David_Jaramillo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-does-not-find-index-fields/276156/3 "2021-06-16T15:47:08Z")
I'm using version v 7.8.0 ---
**Author:** ![dosant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dosant/32/64489_2.png) [@dosant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dosant)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-does-not-find-index-fields/276156/4 "2021-06-16T16:03:52Z")
Please try the workaround. Otherwise this should be fixed in the latest version. > [@dosant](#): > > If you use an older version, then you could try to add an aggregation-based visualization (e.g. a pie chart) with a `sysname` index pattern to that Dashboard, and then this index pattern should be available inside the filter editor. ---
**Author:** ![Juan\_David\_Jaramillo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juan_david_jaramillo/32/76831_2.png) [@Juan\_David\_Jaramillo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juan_David_Jaramillo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-does-not-find-index-fields/276156/5 "2021-06-16T16:07:26Z")
Thanks, I tried with the search in KQL, and there I was able to make a filter, because in the other one I did not get the field, thank you very much for your attention. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/1/f16ef9d9e79a7246ce84d2064b28e50388bbbfcf.png) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-filter-does-not-find-index-fields/276156/6 "2021-07-14T16:08:19Z")
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