# Kibana unable to see stored field "\_size"?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-see-stored-field-size/119294>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 9, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-see-stored-field-size/119294 "2018-02-09T19:44:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![AJinkya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@AJinkya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AJinkya)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-see-stored-field-size/119294/1 "2018-02-09T19:44:11Z")

</div>

Hi All,

I have an elasticsearch cluster with around 4Bn docs. I am trying to do some analysis to get insights in our document sizes. For this I am using the mapper-size plugin to enable the "\_size" field. Now after i build the es indices, i am seeing this field under "stored\_fields". However for some reason kibana doesn't pick this field by default (atleast not that i know of). Is there a way to enable this field in kibana ? I know stored\_fields are hidden, so i just want a way expose it to kibana so as to make my analysis.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Edit : ES v 5.4.3  
KIbana V 5.4.3

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-see-stored-field-size/119294/2 "2018-02-12T15:44:52Z")

</div>

Hey @AJinkya if you go to Management -\> Advanced Settings, you can add `_size` to the `metaFields` setting, you'll then want to refresh your index pattern by going to Management -\> Index Patterns and clicking the "Refresh" button for the appropriate index pattern.

You should now see the `_size` field now.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![AJinkya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@AJinkya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AJinkya)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-see-stored-field-size/119294/3 "2018-02-12T16:30:03Z")

</div>

Hi @Brandon_Kobel Thanks a lot. That helped.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-unable-to-see-stored-field-size/119294/4 "2018-03-12T16:30:09Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.