# Issue with Scripted fields

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-scripted-fields/58514
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 20, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-scripted-fields/58514 "2016-08-20T19:24:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Wayne\_Taylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wayne_taylor/32/45984_2.png) [@Wayne\_Taylor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wayne_Taylor)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-scripted-fields/58514/1 "2016-08-20T19:24:08Z")

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Hi,

I have an issue with scripted fields. I am trying to add a scripted field to calculate total bytes for some data stored in elasticsearch documents.

I have an index with 2 sample records. The index contains the following: tx\_total\_bytes & also rx\_total\_bytes

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/1/15573aa278c69cb2dbe0f78a580bcd3acbacf1ce.png)

The sample documents have values in numeric for both.  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/f/f306c7f216ac2f5c72abcda32d656e41cd11f934.png)

When I add the custom field discover doesn't work ☹

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/f/f5c37fb7581c1a82516dc73ff507a63199812667.png)

When I try to go to discover I get an error

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/0/0884effbb1e3cdde1b1459980ac69d021f7def83.png)

Elastic Search Version 2.3  
Kibana Version: 4.1.2-es-2.0  
Build 7562

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### Author: ![Wayne\_Taylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wayne_taylor/32/45984_2.png) [@Wayne\_Taylor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wayne_Taylor)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-scripted-fields/58514/2 "2016-08-20T19:45:17Z")

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found root cause. Not an issue with Elasticsearch/Kibana itself. Its Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Scripting is disabled ☹

Request to Elasticsearch failed: {"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"script\_exception","reason":"scripts of type [inline], operation [search] and lang [expression] are disabled"

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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: [August 21, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-scripted-fields/58514/3 "2016-08-21T21:34:06Z")

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Ouch ☹

We allow it on our hosted ES service - [https://www.elastic.co/cloud](https://www.elastic.co/cloud)

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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, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-scripted-fields/58514/4 "2017-07-06T13:40:45Z")

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