# Exisisting field doesn't show on Dashboard filters, but it does in discover and visualizations
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exisisting-field-doesnt-show-on-dashboard-filters-but-it-does-in-discover-and-visualizations/257691
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [December 4, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exisisting-field-doesnt-show-on-dashboard-filters-but-it-does-in-discover-and-visualizations/257691 "2020-12-04T19:06:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Incauto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Incauto)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exisisting-field-doesnt-show-on-dashboard-filters-but-it-does-in-discover-and-visualizations/257691/1 "2020-12-04T19:06:10Z")
Hi a specific field doesn't show on the filter of the dashboards, but it exists and can be found in discovery
and in the visualizations
I have reloaded the index pattern, checked his existance through a month, but still not showing in the filters of the dashboard
any clue on what is going on?
Version 7.8
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### Author:  [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exisisting-field-doesnt-show-on-dashboard-filters-but-it-does-in-discover-and-visualizations/257691/2 "2020-12-07T16:55:18Z")
Hi it's hard to know what may be going on (I tried a few simple tests on a clean 7.8 cluster) so I'm asking a few question that may help to find the root cause
- Can you share the underlying index mapping?
- Can you share an screenshot of the index pattern definition?
- Does the field show up in other fKibana apps filter UI's like Discover or Lens?
And probably the most important is if you could share a defined set of steps you can share to reproduce?
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### Author:  [@Incauto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Incauto)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exisisting-field-doesnt-show-on-dashboard-filters-but-it-does-in-discover-and-visualizations/257691/3 "2020-12-08T03:05:00Z")
Mapping
Index pattern
Yes, the field show up in the Discover and lens, also in TSVB
restarted kibana but still the same, in the past the field was shown normally
I dont know what can i tell you to reproduce the error, just try to search or filter in the dasboard, and the autocomplete doesnt show the field, and when I try to force it (writing the field anyway) doesnt give me any result.
Deleted the index pattern, and recreate it...still the same
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### Author:  [@dosant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dosant)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2020, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exisisting-field-doesnt-show-on-dashboard-filters-but-it-does-in-discover-and-visualizations/257691/4 "2020-12-08T10:14:55Z")
Hi @Incauto,
Have an idea where the bug coming from, but I realize that is very unlikely the case for you:
- Is `metrics-interface-*` the default index pattern in Kibana?
- Do you have other similar index patterns which have `q_incident_source`, but not `q_incident_source.keyword`
- Do you have visualizations other then TSVB on that dashboard that use `metrics-interface-*`.
- Do you have other visualizations on that dashboard that use other index patterns? Maybe the one that doesn't have `q_incident_source.keyword`
The fact that filter editor doesn't show all the fields when TSVB is in play could be related to [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/81476](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/81476) bug
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exisisting-field-doesnt-show-on-dashboard-filters-but-it-does-in-discover-and-visualizations/257691/5 "2021-01-05T10:14:56Z")
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