# How does kibana process the field including special character?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-process-the-field-including-special-character/46628>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 7, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-process-the-field-including-special-character/46628 "2016-04-07T06:11:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tuankun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tuankun/32/8590_2.png) [@tuankun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tuankun)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-process-the-field-including-special-character/46628/1 "2016-04-07T06:11:38Z")

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Hi All,  
My ELK is logstash 2.1.3, elasticsearch 2.2.1,kibana 4.4.2.  
I transfer redhat linux rsyslog to ELK, some of the linux hostname include special character,like "wks-ems01" , the "host" field storing hostname is the "string" type with "analyzed,indexed,the default standard Analyzer" .  
it display the correct name in elasticsearch:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/d/d47a6bef6f57cd4fcd36874091e05228cf8b25f8.png)

but when I create pie chart in kibana, kibana will divide the hostname to two values:"wks" and "ems01" ( marked in red rectangle in the following snapshot).

How can it display the correct full hostname? thanks.

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/2/2268dcff26762f99447399b1ca12b340c0543860.png)

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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:** [April 7, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-process-the-field-including-special-character/46628/2 "2016-04-07T06:20:37Z")

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Notice how it has the warning with "Analysed field"? That's why.  
Try `host.raw`.

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**Author:** ![tuankun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tuankun/32/8590_2.png) [@tuankun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tuankun)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-process-the-field-including-special-character/46628/3 "2016-04-07T06:52:14Z")

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@warkolm there is no host.raw field in my kibana, is that any wrong configuration?

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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, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-process-the-field-including-special-character/46628/4 "2017-07-06T13:56:44Z")

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