# Id lookup

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-lookup/25830>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-lookup/25830 "2015-07-17T20:47:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![heuschrecke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/heuschrecke/32/658_2.png) [@heuschrecke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/heuschrecke)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-lookup/25830/1 "2015-07-17T20:47:36Z")

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Currently we log only ids in our statistics cluster, is there a way to resolve die ids by lookup in an other Index? Currently we see only the ids in every aggregation charts ;-(

Cheers  
Michael

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-lookup/25830/2 "2015-07-18T02:59:01Z")

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You may be able to use field formatters to do this - [https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-4-1-field-formatters](https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-4-1-field-formatters)

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-lookup/25830/3 "2015-07-18T14:16:10Z")

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External system lookups for the purposes of resolving ids to names are not currently possible. I'd recommend indexing the names directly in Elasticsearch and doing aggregations straight on those, assuming they are sufficiently static.

For cases where this is not possible, we're tracking some enhancement ideas -- please feel free to +1 and/or comment: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4361](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4361)

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**Author:** ![heuschrecke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/heuschrecke/32/658_2.png) [@heuschrecke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/heuschrecke)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-lookup/25830/4 "2015-07-18T18:17:17Z")

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Right but, but the Name will not the same, because the user can change the name of the item we are currently track ;-( For use it is no problem to provide an Index with the id -\> name Mapping.

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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, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/id-lookup/25830/5 "2017-07-06T14:16:15Z")

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