# Heartbeat monitor.status watch giving "Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default."
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitor-status-watch-giving-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/140196
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [July 16, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitor-status-watch-giving-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/140196 "2018-07-16T16:33:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Rob2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rob2)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitor-status-watch-giving-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/140196/1 "2018-07-16T16:33:24Z")
I had to remove my elasticsearch data folder to get by a Kibana issue that's not allowing me to get back into the Watches management section.
After getting back into the Watches management section, I copy-pasted in the JSON for the watch I had been using for Heartbeat ping status, but when I try to simulate or execute the watch now I'm getting the following failure:
```
"Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [monitor.host] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory. Alternatively use a keyword field instead."
```
I wasn't getting this problem before with the same watch. What could the problem be?
```
{
"watch_id": "_inlined_",
"node": "IFLmN_enSMy4r8OWPr-nzA",
"state": "failed",
"status": {
"state": {
"active": true,
"timestamp": "2018-07-16T16:21:17.625Z"
},
"actions": {
"send_email": {
"ack": {
"timestamp": "2018-07-16T16:21:17.625Z",
"state": "awaits_successful_execution"
}
}
},
"execution_state": "failed",
"version": -1
},
"trigger_event": {
"type": "manual",
"triggered_time": "2018-07-16T16:21:17.631Z",
"manual": {
"schedule": {
"scheduled_time": "2018-07-16T16:21:17.631Z"
}
}
},
"input": {
"search": {
"request": {
"search_type": "query_then_fetch",
"indices": [
"heartbeat-*"
],
"types": [],
"body": {
"size": 0,
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"monitor.status": {
"value": "down"
}
}
}
],
"filter": [
{
"range": {
"@timestamp": {
"from": "now-15m"
}
}
}
]
}
},
"aggregations": {
"by_monitors": {
"terms": {
"field": "monitor.host",
"size": 100,
"min_doc_count": 1
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"condition": {
"compare": {
"ctx.payload.hits.total": {
"gt": 0
}
}
},
"metadata": {
"name": "Ping test systems",
"xpack": {
"type": "json"
}
},
"result": {
"execution_time": "2018-07-16T16:21:17.638Z",
"execution_duration": 80,
"input": {
"type": "search",
"status": "failure",
"error": {
"root_cause": [
{
"type": "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason": "Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [monitor.host] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory. Alternatively use a keyword field instead."
}
],
"type": "search_phase_execution_exception",
"reason": "all shards failed",
"phase": "query",
"grouped": true,
"failed_shards": [
{
"shard": 0,
"index": "heartbeat-6.3.0-2018.07.16",
"node": "IFLmN_enSMy4r8OWPr-nzA",
"reason": {
"type": "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason": "Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [monitor.host] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory. Alternatively use a keyword field instead."
}
}
],
"caused_by": {
"type": "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason": "Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [monitor.host] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory. Alternatively use a keyword field instead.",
"caused_by": {
"type": "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason": "Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [monitor.host] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory. Alternatively use a keyword field instead."
}
}
},
"search": {
"request": {
"search_type": "query_then_fetch",
"indices": [
"heartbeat-*"
],
"types": [],
"body": {
"size": 0,
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"monitor.status": {
"value": "down"
}
}
}
],
"filter": [
{
"range": {
"@timestamp": {
"from": "now-15m"
}
}
}
]
}
},
"aggregations": {
"by_monitors": {
"terms": {
"field": "monitor.host",
"size": 100,
"min_doc_count": 1
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"actions": []
},
"messages": [
"failed to execute watch input"
]
}
```
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### Author:  [@Rob2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rob2)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitor-status-watch-giving-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/140196/2 "2018-07-16T19:28:08Z")
I ended up deleting the elasticsearch data folder again and re-creating visualizations, dashboards, and copy-pasting in the same watch again. For some reason it's working this time.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitor-status-watch-giving-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/140196/3 "2018-07-17T06:56:53Z")
It looks as if the heartbeat index templates were not loaded correctly in the first try. Glad you got it working and thanks for coming back!
--Alex
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitor-status-watch-giving-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/140196/4 "2018-08-14T06:56:55Z")
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