# Introduce data with more lenght than 255 characters in Data Table

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduce-data-with-more-lenght-than-255-characters-in-data-table/273545>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 20, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduce-data-with-more-lenght-than-255-characters-in-data-table/273545 "2021-05-20T13:21:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![pablixelastic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pablixelastic/32/89018_2.png) [@pablixelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pablixelastic)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduce-data-with-more-lenght-than-255-characters-in-data-table/273545/1 "2021-05-20T13:21:51Z")

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Hi!

Is there any solution to watch data with more than 255 characters from MySQL in a Data Table placed inside a dashboard of Kibana?  
I have this response:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/a/dae4c1f3770ffccb042c31b95d7bf0441204a34d.png)

Can someone help me with this?

Thank you very much!!

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduce-data-with-more-lenght-than-255-characters-in-data-table/273545/2 "2021-05-20T13:48:28Z")

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The issue is your mapping - the default keyword fields have `ignore_above` set to 255. You can set them to much larger values to be able to use the values in aggregations.

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**Author:** ![pablixelastic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pablixelastic/32/89018_2.png) [@pablixelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pablixelastic)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduce-data-with-more-lenght-than-255-characters-in-data-table/273545/3 "2021-05-20T13:57:34Z")

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Hi flash!

I tried to change that value from Dev Tools but it didn't work for me.  
Do you know if i have to stablish that value in my config file?

Thank you for your time!

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduce-data-with-more-lenght-than-255-characters-in-data-table/273545/4 "2021-05-20T14:28:59Z")

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Can you be more specific what you tried and what happened?

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**Author:** ![pablixelastic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pablixelastic/32/89018_2.png) [@pablixelastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pablixelastic)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduce-data-with-more-lenght-than-255-characters-in-data-table/273545/5 "2021-05-20T15:01:04Z")

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It's ok, i just solved now, i just wanted to create a data table with a column that have questions with more than 255 characters.  
What i have done is creating a new index and specify there the ignore\_above field to 5000 like in this example:

PUT NAME\_OF\_THE\_INDEX  
{  
"mappings": {  
"properties": {  
"THE\_COLUMN\_WE\_HAVE\_WITH\_MORE\_THAN\_255\_CHARACTERS": {  
"type": "keyword",  
"ignore\_above": 5000  
}  
}  
}  
}

And then via logstash, send the data to our NAME\_OF\_THE\_INDEX

I hope that anyone with the same issue just find here the solution!

Have a good day.

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduce-data-with-more-lenght-than-255-characters-in-data-table/273545/6 "2021-05-20T15:07:56Z")

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Right, you need to create a separate index, then move your data over using the reindex API

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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:** [June 17, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/introduce-data-with-more-lenght-than-255-characters-in-data-table/273545/7 "2021-06-17T15:08:48Z")

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