# Kibana search pattern help
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-pattern-help/151067
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 4, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-pattern-help/151067 "2018-10-04T14:55:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@pradeepbill7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pradeepbill7)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-pattern-help/151067/1 "2018-10-04T14:55:31Z")
Hello there, I am using ELK6.4 stack, I have data like the attached picture, and the search works only if I give like this "headers.direction:external" , but i need it to work when i give "direction:external", I am searching from Kibana.Please advice.
Thanks
Pradeep! 
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### Author:  [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-pattern-help/151067/2 "2018-10-05T14:24:47Z")
hi @pradeepbill7
The search looks at the field name. so it seems you like to change the `headers.direction` field to be renamed as `direction`. You'll likely want to index your documents with the correct fieldname `direction`.
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### Author:  [@pradeepbill7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pradeepbill7)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-pattern-help/151067/3 "2018-10-05T14:59:54Z")
thanks thomas, I can not upate the index, as it is being used by many other applications, Can I update the elastic template to somehow search direction:value , when headers.direction:value is used ?, like a pattern saying , when headers.\* is searched , either strip "headers" from the query, or go look under headers.
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### Author:  [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-pattern-help/151067/4 "2018-10-06T18:50:59Z")
hi @pradeepbill7,
If you cannot reindex, I would look at adding a field alias to your index. [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/alias.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/alias.html). You can add one for the fields you would like to rename.
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### Author:  [@pradeepbill7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pradeepbill7)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-pattern-help/151067/5 "2018-10-07T15:29:24Z")
thanks Thomas, we are using elastic 6.3 , I tried the example at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/alias.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/alias.html) , and it throws error like below, is there something I have to enable to get the field level aliases to work ?
{
· "error": {
o "root\_cause": [
§ {
§ "type": "mapper\_parsing\_exception",
§ "reason": "No handler for type [alias] declared on field [route\_length\_miles]"
}
o ],
o "type": "mapper\_parsing\_exception",
o "reason": "Failed to parse mapping [\_doc]: No handler for type [alias] declared on field [route\_length\_miles]",
o "caused\_by": {
§ "type": "mapper\_parsing\_exception",
§ "reason": "No handler for type [alias] declared on field [route\_length\_miles]"
}
· },
· "status": 400
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-pattern-help/151067/6 "2018-11-04T15:29:30Z")
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