# Ganglia Mapping conflict

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ganglia-mapping-conflict/28553>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 2, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ganglia-mapping-conflict/28553 "2015-09-02T19:07:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JoelC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@JoelC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JoelC)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ganglia-mapping-conflict/28553/1 "2015-09-02T19:07:05Z")

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I have successfully setup Ganglia and logstash to feed into elasticsearch. The issue I am having is that Ganglia data has multiple types (string, float,etc) for the 'value' field in Kibana.  
My assumption is that I should be able to use the 'type' field to somehow inform Kibana that for a particular entry the value type should be string or float. What is the proper way to resolve this issue?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ganglia-mapping-conflict/28553/2 "2015-09-03T06:18:48Z")

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Ideally you should do a convert in your LS config and map it to the lowest common denominator format, which will probably be a string.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ganglia-mapping-conflict/28553/3 "2017-07-06T14:13:49Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 2:13pm UTC