# How can i validate a field is indexed in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-validate-a-field-is-indexed-in-elasticsearch/48929>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 2, 2016, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-validate-a-field-is-indexed-in-elasticsearch/48929 "2016-05-02T07:27:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sudeesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@Sudeesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sudeesh)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-validate-a-field-is-indexed-in-elasticsearch/48929/1 "2016-05-02T07:27:24Z")

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I got Mapping issue in kibana4. From my logstash configuration below are the two fields renamed to time\_stamp.  
Before it was working fine and it type is 'String'. Now I am getting conflict message in field 'time\_stamp'. Using kibana4.

rename =\> ["timeStamp" , "time\_stamp"]  
rename =\> ["RunTime" , "time\_stamp"]  
date  
{  
locale =\> "en"  
match =\> ["time\_stamp" , "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS"]  
timezone =\> "America/Chicago"  
target =\> "time\_stamp"

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}

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How can i validate time\_stamp is really indexed or not? Plz help.

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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:** [May 2, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-validate-a-field-is-indexed-in-elasticsearch/48929/2 "2016-05-02T07:35:23Z")

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> [@Sudeesh](#):
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> How can i validate time\_stamp is really indexed or not?

I think you might mean why does it show as different mapping types?  
Are you setting the field mappings in ES via a template, or using dynamic mappings?

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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, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-validate-a-field-is-indexed-in-elasticsearch/48929/3 "2017-07-06T04:59:42Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:59am UTC