# Kibana doesn't show .keyword field under fields dropdown
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-show-keyword-field-under-fields-dropdown/75104
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-show-keyword-field-under-fields-dropdown/75104 "2017-02-14T20:07:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Piyush\_Diwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Piyush_Diwan)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-show-keyword-field-under-fields-dropdown/75104/1 "2017-02-14T20:07:24Z")
I have an ES index generated by logstash that has the keyword field for all the properties, visible using ES API in kibana but on visualize page when I try to apply aggregation on Term, Field drop-down doesn't show any .keyword fields at all. What am I missing ?
ES API -\>
```auto
"mcs-elasticsearch": {
"mappings": {
"flower_document": {
"properties": {
"@timestamp": {
"type": "date"
},
"@version": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"beat": {
"properties": {
"hostname": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"name": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"version": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
}
}
},
"function": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"host": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"input_type": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"loglevel": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
"message": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
},
....
```
Kibana Visualize -\>
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### Author:  [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-show-keyword-field-under-fields-dropdown/75104/2 "2017-02-14T22:41:56Z")
`beat.hostname` is in the dropdown though I don't see `beat.name`. Are you sure there is data for that key within the search parameters you have?
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### Author:  [@Piyush\_Diwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Piyush_Diwan)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-show-keyword-field-under-fields-dropdown/75104/3 "2017-02-14T22:55:09Z")
Scroll down the ES data, you'll see `beat.name` and `beat.version`. My problem wasn't that though. As you could see every property has
```auto
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
```
so I expect Fields dropdown should show both `host` and `host.keyword` options for full text search and aggregation respectively. But it doesn't!
Precisely I wanted to achieve this without having to enable `fielddata`:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/fielddata.html#before-enabling-fielddata](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/fielddata.html#before-enabling-fielddata)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-show-keyword-field-under-fields-dropdown/75104/4 "2017-03-14T22:55:53Z")
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### Author:  [@Toby-Elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Toby-Elastic)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-show-keyword-field-under-fields-dropdown/75104/5 "2020-08-26T10:24:33Z")
For those finding this post/question through a search engine: the solution for this problem is to refresh the field list of the Index Pattern of the affected Index in Kibana. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/managing-fields.html#\_manage\_your\_index\_pattern](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/managing-fields.html#_manage_your_index_pattern)