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 a…

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 Kibana …

Diskio Fields Are Not available To Create Visualization

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PrakherS (Prakher Singhal) April 20, 2017, 5:09pm 3

Hi @cjcenizal

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

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

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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Diskio Fields Are Not available To Create Visualization

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