# Diskio Fields Are Not available To Create Visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/diskio-fields-are-not-available-to-create-visualization/82929>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/diskio-fields-are-not-available-to-create-visualization/82929 "2017-04-19T17:27:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![PrakherS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@PrakherS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrakherS)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/diskio-fields-are-not-available-to-create-visualization/82929/1 "2017-04-19T17:27:11Z")

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Hello,

Greetings to all community members.

I need a little help here. When I am trying to create a diskio visualization, the fields like system. **diskio**.read.count, system. **diskio**.write.count, and other system.diskio.xx.xx fields aren't available to choose from the drop down list.

These fields are available for querying on Kibana _Discover_ as well as on _TimeLion_ but not available to create visualization. Is there any particular reason that diskio fields aren't available there?

Elasticsearch version: 5.2.1  
Metricbeat version: 5.2.2  
OS: Windows

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/diskio-fields-are-not-available-to-create-visualization/82929/2 "2017-04-19T21:33:32Z")

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Hi there, I'm sorry I'm not familiar with Diskio, but I can tell you that a field needs to be marked as aggregatable and searchable to be used in a visualization. Here are a couple previous posts in which users solved this problem:

- [Fields in Kibana 5 are non-searchable and non-aggregatable](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-in-kibana-5-are-non-searchable-and-non-aggregatable/70565/5)
- [Kibana 5.2, How to set "searchable" or "aggregatable"](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-2-how-to-set-searchable-or-aggregatable/74810/4)

Could you take a look and let me know if they help?

Thanks,  
CJ

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**Author:** ![PrakherS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@PrakherS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrakherS)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/diskio-fields-are-not-available-to-create-visualization/82929/3 "2017-04-20T17:09:38Z")

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Hi @cjcenizal

Those links help in fixing it. This is exactly what I tried:

> [@Saved "field" parameter is now invalid. Please select a new field. .... Visualize: "field" is a required parameter](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-field-parameter-is-now-invalid-please-select-a-new-field-visualize-field-is-a-required-parameter/70034/16):
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> Can you also run GET metricbeat\*/\_mapping/metricsets/field/system.load.norm.15 and GET /\_field\_stats?fields=system.load.norm.15 in dev tools and send me the output? Refreshing the field list in management (the yellow button) should correct those fields to be marked as searchable and aggregatable, unless their is an issue with no data existing for those fields.

I have refreshed the metricbeat fields and I could see the diskio fields are searchable and aggregatable now.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/7/47f12faf71e2ded464a99adb979dff43f34043ca.jpg)

I have also learned some useful GET queries which can tell us if the fields are mapped and are searchable and aggregatable or not.

> GET metricbeat\*/\_mapping/metricsets/field/system.diskio.read.count

and

> GET /\_field\_stats?fields=system.diskio.read.count

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/diskio-fields-are-not-available-to-create-visualization/82929/4 "2017-04-20T20:28:37Z")

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Great! I'm glad you were able to solve your problem. Thanks for posting, Prakher.

CJ

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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:** [May 18, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/diskio-fields-are-not-available-to-create-visualization/82929/5 "2017-05-18T20:37:30Z")

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