# Grok Parsing numeric field as "NUMBER:field\_name:float" , still Kibana showing string field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/grok-parsing-numeric-field-as-numberfloat-still-kibana-showing-string-field/297970>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 23, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/grok-parsing-numeric-field-as-numberfloat-still-kibana-showing-string-field/297970 "2022-02-23T05:29:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrunalini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mrunalini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrunalini)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/grok-parsing-numeric-field-as-numberfloat-still-kibana-showing-string-field/297970/1 "2022-02-23T05:29:01Z")

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HI Team ,

In my logstash conf file i am parsing fields with grok , and numeric field with - "NUMBER:field\_name:float".

But Kibana is still showing this field as string in my index .

Value coming in this field will be like - 5.8978

Please let me know what needs to be done to parse this field as numeric .

Thanks and regards,  
Mrunalini

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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:** [March 23, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/grok-parsing-numeric-field-as-numberfloat-still-kibana-showing-string-field/297970/2 "2022-03-23T05:29:50Z")

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