# Index Fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-fields/32301>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 15, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-fields/32301 "2015-10-15T16:46:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Don\_Click](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@Don\_Click](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don_Click)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-fields/32301/1 "2015-10-15T16:46:43Z")

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I am not sure I am in the right place, but since I see this in the Kibana4 interface, I thought I would start here.

I have been struggling over the last couple of weeks getting my logstash configured properly, and I think I am there now, however, when I go Kibana, and I look at my index (logstash-\*) I am seeing over 1000 fields now!

I am not sure this is correct, but I don't know enough about this stuff to be positive. is this normal?

I have 4 inputs in logstash - 2 udp (1 for cisco switches/routers, 1 standard RFC Syslog) 1 TCP (cisco firewalls) and 1 for Windows event logs.

Any advice is appreciated.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-fields/32301/2 "2015-10-15T17:49:17Z")

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1000 fields sounds excessive, but without knowing what fields you have it's hard to say anything more.

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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, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-fields/32301/3 "2017-07-06T14:11:16Z")

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