# Kibana not showing completion suggest traffic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-showing-completion-suggest-traffic/205179>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 25, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-showing-completion-suggest-traffic/205179 "2019-10-25T04:37:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![davidbkemp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidbkemp/32/594_2.png) [@davidbkemp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davidbkemp)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-showing-completion-suggest-traffic/205179/1 "2019-10-25T04:37:35Z")

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Anyone else notice that Kibana doesn't show traffic to an index that only receives searches that use the completion suggest feature? We are using version Elasticsearch and Kibana version 7.4

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-showing-completion-suggest-traffic/205179/2 "2019-10-25T04:44:55Z")

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Can you elaborate on your question a bit more. What is the data your indexing? what are u expecting to see and what you don't see ? Might have to dig deeper, but plz provide more steps, screenshots, logs etc.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![davidbkemp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidbkemp/32/594_2.png) [@davidbkemp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davidbkemp)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-showing-completion-suggest-traffic/205179/3 "2019-10-26T01:19:52Z")

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Here is a simple example. Two indexes: apple and banana. The former has a field with a simple text mapping, and the latter has a field with a completion mapping. Insert a document in each.

```
# Create index with simple text mapping
PUT /apple
{
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "a": {"type": "text"}
    }
  }
}

# Create index using a completion mapping
PUT /banana
{
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "x": {"type": "completion"}
    }
  }
}

# Insert documents into each
PUT /apple/_doc/1?refresh=true
{
  "a": "hello"
}

PUT /banana/_doc/1?refresh=true
{
  "x": "hello"
}

```

Now perform several simple searches on "apple" and several completion suggest searches on "banana"

```
# Simple search
GET /apple/_search

# Search using completion suggester
GET banana/_search
{
  "suggest": {
    "mysuggest": {
      "prefix": "hel",
      "completion": {
        "field": "x"
      }
    }
  }
}

```

Look at the search rate graphs for each index on the Kibana monitoring dashboard.

 ![normalSearches](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/f/0fa8d3b248407b5975bab1c96a5c37a6edc6011c.jpeg)

The one for "apple" shows a spike of searches, but the one for "banana" remains on zero searches per second

 ![completionSuggestSearches](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/9/7953bd5e571248729842a3ab89eab97a9242fd08.jpeg)

🤔

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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:** [November 23, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-showing-completion-suggest-traffic/205179/4 "2019-11-23T01:20:02Z")

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