# How to change the dimension name in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-dimension-name-in-kibana/153120>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 19, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-dimension-name-in-kibana/153120 "2018-10-19T06:47:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nethaji](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nethaji/32/72803_2.png) [@Nethaji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nethaji)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-dimension-name-in-kibana/153120/1 "2018-10-19T06:47:14Z")

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Hi,

how to change the dimension name in kibana?

i need to change the filed name as alias name and i don't know how to do this.

can u please provide the solution?

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-dimension-name-in-kibana/153120/2 "2018-10-19T15:53:12Z")

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Are you saying you're using field aliases and want to use the alias instead of the original field name? Or are you wanting to just customize the label on a chart?

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**Author:** ![Nethaji](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nethaji/32/72803_2.png) [@Nethaji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nethaji)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 7:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-dimension-name-in-kibana/153120/3 "2018-10-20T07:04:48Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/1/91abe42c7717f19ec31901f973ae4cf1082cef56.png)

how to change the label name chennai as madras?

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-dimension-name-in-kibana/153120/4 "2018-10-22T16:21:47Z")

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It depends on how your visualization is set up. If you're using a terms aggregation then there isn't any way to customize the label, but if you're doing a filters aggregation then there is a button next to the filter text you can click to customize the label.

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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:** [November 19, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-dimension-name-in-kibana/153120/5 "2018-11-19T16:35:08Z")

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