# Kibana not displaying fields with more than 300 characters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-displaying-fields-with-more-than-300-characters/143540>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 8, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-displaying-fields-with-more-than-300-characters/143540 "2018-08-08T14:31:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Moka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moka)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-displaying-fields-with-more-than-300-characters/143540/1 "2018-08-08T14:31:13Z")

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Hello ,

I'm using kibana to display log messages that have more than 300 characters .I already modified the "ignore\_above" parameter in the mappings.  
I've done some tests manually :  
string : length =295 characters =\> displayed in kibana (data table)  
string : length =305 characters =\> not displayed in kibana (data table)

BTW : In discover menu the field is displayed for the long messages.

Any help would be appreciated,  
Best Regards,  
Moka

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-displaying-fields-with-more-than-300-characters/143540/2 "2018-08-09T02:11:23Z")

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I wonder if you're running into `truncate:maxHeight`. Can you try updating that in advanced settings?

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**Author:** ![Moka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Moka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moka)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-displaying-fields-with-more-than-300-characters/143540/3 "2018-08-09T08:33:10Z")

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I have set truncate:maxHeight to 0 (disabled it).

For info , I initially couldn't visualize the lines containing long fields in the data table so I did the following steps : add-sub-bucket -\>advanced -\>json-input -\> added this text : {"missing":"N/A"}.  
So now , I get the missing lines displayed but for the long field I get 'N/A' displayed.  
Whats intriguing for me is that these values exist in my ES index , but not displayed in kibana.

Any ideas? (I'm using kibana 5.5)

Thanks in advance  
Best regards ,  
Moka

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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:** [September 6, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-displaying-fields-with-more-than-300-characters/143540/4 "2018-09-06T08:33:17Z")

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