# Kibana Creating Charts for Short Text Strings

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-creating-charts-for-short-text-strings/175287>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-creating-charts-for-short-text-strings/175287 "2019-04-03T22:55:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon83966306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@anon83966306](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon83966306)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-creating-charts-for-short-text-strings/175287/1 "2019-04-03T22:55:25Z")

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I would like to create some bar charts for example like you do with IP`s that shows their frequency count for short strings.

My use case is that I have a field that has url paths stored in them and would like to generate charts for them.

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**Author:** ![anon83966306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@anon83966306](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon83966306)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-creating-charts-for-short-text-strings/175287/2 "2019-04-03T23:18:22Z")

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FOUND IT!

I had set the fields I wanted to visualize to keyword as per the docs but Kibana was not seeing the changes and I had to refresh the index from  
MANAGEMENT =\> KIBANA =\> INDEX PATTERNS

That solved the problem.

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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:** [May 1, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-creating-charts-for-short-text-strings/175287/3 "2019-05-01T23:18:34Z")

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