# Display label

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-label/149969>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-graph\
**Created:** [September 26, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-label/149969 "2018-09-26T09:21:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sysdradmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@sysdradmin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sysdradmin)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-label/149969/1 "2018-09-26T09:21:21Z")

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Hello,

is there a way to say to display label to looking for in other index in order to display it ?

For example : we have a facets in elasticsearch with ip adress like 192.168.1.2 and we want that it display 'AD server' instead of '192.168.1.2' and it looking for in another index where there is the correspondance between name et ip adress.

thanks !

rgds

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-label/149969/2 "2018-09-26T10:25:17Z")

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This is a specific example of a broader problem I call _"computers want IDs, people want labels"_.  
_All_ visualisations in Kibana could benefit from such a label-lookup service but it potentially comes at a performance cost so there are currently no plans to fix this.

In these sorts of situations I generally advise that you make `keyword` fields which combine the ID part (which makes the entity unique) with the label (which makes it human-readable) into a single string e.g. `"[58281946] John Smith"`

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**Author:** ![sysdradmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@sysdradmin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sysdradmin)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-label/149969/3 "2018-09-26T10:39:59Z")

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thanks !  
is there another plugin/solution which do that ?

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-label/149969/4 "2018-09-27T07:11:24Z")

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Not to my knowledge

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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:** [October 25, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-label/149969/5 "2018-10-25T07:11:28Z")

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