# How to show specific fields only?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-specific-fields-only/165586>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 24, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-specific-fields-only/165586 "2019-01-24T11:50:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![asp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-specific-fields-only/165586/1 "2019-01-24T11:50:22Z")

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Hi there,

We are having events which includes following fields:

- stacktrace
- exceptionName
- user
- request
- response
- functionCalled  
...

As you can imagine some of these fields can be really long (e.g. response, request, stacktrace). So if I unfold such a big event may fill 2-4 screens.  
Is there any way to filter our or to fold big fields in the document view, so that I need to press on "+" to see it completely? Or that long field values are shown as overlay?

I was asked if I use the search view, if there is a way to set the number of displayed rows for specific searches? I know there is some parameter in advanced settings which defines how many lines per event may be displayed. But this is a global parameter affecting whole discover module / all saved searches.

I know, the question is quite unspecific, but maybe you have some ideas 😉

Thanks,  
Andreas

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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:** [February 21, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-specific-fields-only/165586/2 "2019-02-21T11:50:25Z")

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