# Difference between log and dashboard

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-log-and-dashboard/277066
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 25, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-log-and-dashboard/277066 "2021-06-25T13:37:00Z")
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### Author: ![Arethusa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@Arethusa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arethusa)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-log-and-dashboard/277066/1 "2021-06-25T13:37:00Z")

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Hello, I'm on Kibana v7.12.0

I have a fied "CommanLine" and in THIS log is very long.

 ![kibabug1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/2/62e954467e0ee588c3643621d4fbdf12afeab150.png)

And when i want to add it on Dashboard, I have (Missing Value) but only for this field, the other are ok.

 ![kibabug2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/9/a9935ac58f241cfaef6c37c6c986e43f2f0ebe3c.png)

I supose it's because the value is to long, but maybe not !

Do you have an idea ?

Thank you.

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### Author: ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-log-and-dashboard/277066/2 "2021-06-28T08:50:46Z")

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Check the mapping of your index - I suspect you are using a keyword field with an `ignore_above` param set to a low value. Visualizations will use aggregations which are based on the indexed value - in this case there is no indexed value because it got ignored.

You can fix it by increasing the `ignore_above` setting in your mapping - for historical data you have to re-index existing data so it's picked up correctly.

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### Author: ![Arethusa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@Arethusa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arethusa)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-log-and-dashboard/277066/3 "2021-06-30T09:33:38Z")

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Hello,

```auto
...
              "type" : "text",
              "fields" : {
                "keyword" : {
                  "type" : "keyword",
                  "ignore_above" : 256
...

```

Yes, I have "ignore\_above" : 256, I will study how to fixe that juste for this field.

Thank you

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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: [July 28, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-log-and-dashboard/277066/4 "2021-07-28T09:34:29Z")

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