# Fields in Kibana 5 are non-searchable and non-aggregatable

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-in-kibana-5-are-non-searchable-and-non-aggregatable/70565>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 4, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-in-kibana-5-are-non-searchable-and-non-aggregatable/70565 "2017-01-04T14:30:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-in-kibana-5-are-non-searchable-and-non-aggregatable/70565/5 "2017-01-05T08:06:57Z")

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@BigFunger

**Do you mean that Elasticsearch is running on your linux server, and that you are pointing the topbeat instance on your windows machine to it?**  
Yes, elasticsearch 5.1 is running on my linux server and topbeat1.2 instance on my windows machine is pointing to elasticsearch 5.1 on linux machine.

**Are you using Logstash to index the data from topbeat, or did you configure it to dump directly into Elasticsearch?**  
No, I am not using logstash to index the data from topbeat, I configured it to dump directly into elasticsearch 5.1 on linux machine

**If you are dumping directly into elasticsearch, I don't think that you need to manually load the index template.**  
If you don't manually load the index template, how would you ensure the datatypes?

**Related to my earlier question. Are you sure that there are actual documents indexed with data for these fields?**  
Yes

@Stacey_Gammon  
Thanks, I tried your link and it worked.  
I read the documentation and it says like that

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/e/ed93990b6b29a8bbb58cda7a3d59cc72d24bf3dc.png)  
Going by the documentation,  
**You can reload the index fields list to pick up any newly-added fields.**  
I manually loaded the index template for topbeat-\* index.  
I found that in topbeat.template.json all the fields which were non-searchable and non-aggregatable were present in it. So, these fields were not newly-added, they were already present.

So, what happended when I pressed the Reload button, that made kibana to recognise these fields as searchable and aggregatable??

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