# Is it possible to filter in Kibana based on fields not rendered in a visualisation? **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-filter-in-kibana-based-on-fields-not-rendered-in-a-visualisation/50256 **Category:** Kibana **Created:** [May 17, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-filter-in-kibana-based-on-fields-not-rendered-in-a-visualisation/50256 "2016-05-17T19:39:24Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![sjivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sjivan) #### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-filter-in-kibana-based-on-fields-not-rendered-in-a-visualisation/50256/7 "2016-12-15T11:43:06Z")
I found another thread [Data table :hide column Count](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-table-hide-column-count/53037) that confirms that the Metric column cannot be removed / hidden so I used a bit of a hack to get as close to the desired results as I could short of writing a plugin. I added a dummy numeric field to my document that has a null value for all records and in the data table I select the Metric as Max (or Min) of this field and use a label of \_ or . to make the column as close to invisible as I can. Sadly column label doesn't accept markup so   doesn't work but this is what I'll have to work with for now. Definitely a fundamental building block viz that is missing from Kibana. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/3/3f319aaa678b19516f8a872ff49990167aceec32.jpg) --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-filter-in-kibana-based-on-fields-not-rendered-in-a-visualisation/50256)._