# Data type for filebeat data being ignored
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-type-for-filebeat-data-being-ignored/165395
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-type-for-filebeat-data-being-ignored/165395 "2019-01-23T11:50:17Z")
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### Author:  [@ethrbunny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethrbunny)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-type-for-filebeat-data-being-ignored/165395/1 "2019-01-23T11:50:17Z")
I have data coming in from kubernetes -\> stdout -\> filebeat -\> logstash -\> elastic. Looking at the data in Kibana I see that it doesn't have a recognized type. (IE it's marked with a '?' and can't be searched for a chart).
Doing a **GET /filebeat-2019.01.22** I can see a mapping for the relevant fields:
```
"lagmonitor" : {
"properties" : {
"consumer" : {
"properties" : {
"group" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
},
"sum" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
}
```
and so on.
My questions:
- why isn't kibana showing the "consumer.group" type as text / keyword?
- how do I change the "sum" field to be numeric?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-type-for-filebeat-data-being-ignored/165395/2 "2019-02-20T12:04:27Z")
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