# How to change field names in Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-field-names-in-kibana/48745>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 28, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-field-names-in-kibana/48745 "2016-04-28T22:26:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sameer\_Panicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sameer\_Panicker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameer_Panicker)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-field-names-in-kibana/48745/1 "2016-04-28T22:26:15Z")

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I am currently storing values directly to Elastic Search. When I search for the log, I get this in Kibana

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/d/dba65c78655ae2c193fb1163e1347ac88bd1a914.png)

How can I change the field name from Payload\_session -\> SessionID.

I know this can be achieved using logstash. But since, I am using ES and Kibana only, is there a way to update this field name?

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-field-names-in-kibana/48745/2 "2016-04-28T23:35:33Z")

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Hi Sameer,

This is not currently possible in Kibana. There is an issue requesting this functionality here;

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1896>

But note that you can change the axis labels in visualizations now, so if you're charting Payload\_sessionID you can change the name of that axis to SessionID.

Regards,  
Lee

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**Author:** ![Sameer\_Panicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sameer\_Panicker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameer_Panicker)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-field-names-in-kibana/48745/3 "2016-04-29T01:35:24Z")

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Thanks lee. I know in the visualization i can have custom labels. But i really wanted to change field names.

Is there any other option for me ?

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-field-names-in-kibana/48745/4 "2016-04-29T13:50:03Z")

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Hi Sameer,

If you're a JavaScript developer I think you could write a plugin that would let you change the name you see in Kibana.

For help on that I would use the IRC channel; we're in #kibana on freenode.

Thanks,  
Lee

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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, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-field-names-in-kibana/48745/5 "2017-07-06T13:54:44Z")

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