# How to make a field aggregatable in Kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-field-aggregatable-in-kibana/90470
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 22, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-field-aggregatable-in-kibana/90470 "2017-06-22T13:57:55Z")
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### Author: ![BigFunger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigfunger/32/7323_2.png) [@BigFunger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BigFunger)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-field-aggregatable-in-kibana/90470/2 "2017-06-22T16:21:41Z")

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More than likely, the field you are trying to aggregate on is not populated with data in your index. Here is a [link](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-field-parameter-is-now-invalid-please-select-a-new-field/83860/4?u=bigfunger) to another thread that asked a similar question.

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