# Error in visualization "field" is a required parameter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-visualization-field-is-a-required-parameter/198122>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [September 4, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-visualization-field-is-a-required-parameter/198122 "2019-09-04T23:30:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mheinle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@mheinle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mheinle)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-visualization-field-is-a-required-parameter/198122/1 "2019-09-04T23:30:28Z")

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Hello,  
I am super new to ELK and having trouble with Kibana after running through [Getting Started with Winlogbeats 7.0](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/winlogbeat/7.0/winlogbeat-getting-started.html)

I had Winlogbeats working fine and was trying to output to Logstash so I went through the guide. Once finished my dashboard for Winlogbeats no longer works correctly. I can see thousands of events are being indexed, but three of the panels are blank and I am seeing the error as the subject states "Error in Visualization field is a required parameter". I don't understand what steps broke Kibana, or why it seems the data for the dashboard is not present. Any assistance would be appreciated.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/3/d3dd6a44fed89b2efd768b566fe42cc0b6502bd8.png)

Finally, when changing the output to logstash the dashboard does not get any new data. I don't understand where to see the data getting set to logstash.

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**Author:** ![mheinle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@mheinle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mheinle)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-visualization-field-is-a-required-parameter/198122/2 "2019-09-19T16:24:07Z")

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This can be closed, I ended up reinstalling the stack to resolve the issue. On second attempt the issue did not repeat itself.

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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 17, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-visualization-field-is-a-required-parameter/198122/3 "2019-10-17T16:24:11Z")

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