# I have loaded some logs onto Kibana through logstash but not able to visualize it. Please help

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-loaded-some-logs-onto-kibana-through-logstash-but-not-able-to-visualize-it-please-help/243127 "2020-07-29T21:17:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![ishan.abhinit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@ishan.abhinit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ishan.abhinit)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-loaded-some-logs-onto-kibana-through-logstash-but-not-able-to-visualize-it-please-help/243127/1 "2020-07-29T21:17:53Z")

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I have loaded some logs onto Kibana through logstash but not able to visualize it. Please help.

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![image|690x255](upload://iphkLDgNMjPf5ckQWnShHvvXJKW.png) 

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When i click on the available field on the left pane, it does not show me any option to visualize. How can I see visualization?

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**Author:** ![aaron-nimocks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron-nimocks/32/73965_2.png) [@aaron-nimocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron-nimocks)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-loaded-some-logs-onto-kibana-through-logstash-but-not-able-to-visualize-it-please-help/243127/2 "2020-07-29T21:31:11Z")

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Can't see your image so just guessing.

Did you create an index pattern?

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**Author:** ![ishan.abhinit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@ishan.abhinit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ishan.abhinit)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-loaded-some-logs-onto-kibana-through-logstash-but-not-able-to-visualize-it-please-help/243127/3 "2020-07-29T21:34:26Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/1/8102ae0275347301c9b28c14d59bccbf27ae228a.png)

I have pasted the image. Please check now.

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**Author:** ![aaron-nimocks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron-nimocks/32/73965_2.png) [@aaron-nimocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron-nimocks)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-loaded-some-logs-onto-kibana-through-logstash-but-not-able-to-visualize-it-please-help/243127/4 "2020-07-29T21:47:31Z")

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![Screenshot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/3/73c67385385066036b04725b3798a9d6ef434d0c.png)

When you click on the index names like in the picture above does your index that you saved your data show up?

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**Author:** ![ishan.abhinit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@ishan.abhinit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ishan.abhinit)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-loaded-some-logs-onto-kibana-through-logstash-but-not-able-to-visualize-it-please-help/243127/5 "2020-07-29T22:06:51Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/f/efa43c5f86abed6fad4c2e329fb9b3985f5c5ee7.png)

here's the index patterns. The index that data was saved to is logstash

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/e/6eecd87240e9440ab894a1918ab70b446f994b22.png)

Please correct me if I am wrong in my understanding.

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**Author:** ![aaron-nimocks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron-nimocks/32/73965_2.png) [@aaron-nimocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron-nimocks)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-loaded-some-logs-onto-kibana-through-logstash-but-not-able-to-visualize-it-please-help/243127/6 "2020-07-29T22:10:25Z")

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Ok I think I misunderstood. If you want to visualize trying going to Visualize -\> Lens.

If you want to see the data on discover you can click ADD button but that only adds that column of data in the results pane.

What type of visualization do you want to do?

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**Author:** ![ishan.abhinit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@ishan.abhinit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ishan.abhinit)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-loaded-some-logs-onto-kibana-through-logstash-but-not-able-to-visualize-it-please-help/243127/7 "2020-07-29T22:51:30Z")

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I want something like below:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/8/8868312dd7e31fdecacd35db757f2ae5be4745d5.png)

This above data is indexed through Filebeat. You see how there is an option to visualize the available fields.  
I want to have that option when I load the data via logstash.

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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:** [August 26, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-loaded-some-logs-onto-kibana-through-logstash-but-not-able-to-visualize-it-please-help/243127/8 "2020-08-26T22:51:38Z")

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