Kibana Dashboard Error – Set fielddata=true on fieldname

Hi Stacey,

Thanks for getting back to us.

Yes for the input
GET metricbeat*/_mapping/metricsets/field/beat.name

Please find the below output

{
  "metricbeat-2017.04.24": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.23": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.26": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.05.02": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.25": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.28": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.17": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "text",
              "fields": {
                "keyword": {
                  "type": "keyword",
                  "ignore_above": 256
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.27": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.19": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.18": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "text",
              "fields": {
                "keyword": {
                  "type": "keyword",
                  "ignore_above": 256
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.29": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.20": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.30": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.05.01": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.22": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "metricbeat-2017.04.21": {
    "mappings": {
      "metricsets": {
        "beat.name": {
          "full_name": "beat.name",
          "mapping": {
            "name": {
              "type": "keyword",
              "ignore_above": 1024
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

And also If i go back to the dashboard and shorten the time range as of 15 minutes, its strange that no error is displayed now.