# Mapping Types not showing in Kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-not-showing-in-kibana/99885
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 8, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-not-showing-in-kibana/99885 "2017-09-08T18:19:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@dmtd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dmtd)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-not-showing-in-kibana/99885/1 "2017-09-08T18:19:30Z")
I'm trying to set types manually for certain fields because Elasticsearch / Kibana is incorrectly categorizing things that should be Numbers as Strings. We are currently doing Filebeat -\> Elasticsearch. I know that Logstash can solve some of this, but we'd like to keep our existing flow. I know that mappings can be set in Elasticsearch with a template, so I've tried doing that. But when refreshing the index in Kibana, the field type is still listed as string. How can I fix this?
What I tried to do to set the template:
```
curl -XPUT 'http://elasticsearch:9200/_template/applog_1' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"template": "applog-*",
"order": 10,
"mappings": {
"json.Properties.thingService/timerMs/success": {
"type": "integer"
}
}
}
'
```
Elasticsearch 2.3.3
Kibana 4.4
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### Author:  [@dmtd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dmtd)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-not-showing-in-kibana/99885/2 "2017-09-08T20:00:24Z")
Nevermind. Seems that the mapping has to be defined higher up the chain, as fields will not automatically convert to the type specified in elasticsearch. So Filebeat needs the template defined.
`2017-09-08T19:54:25Z WARN Can not index event (status=400): {"type":"mapper_parsing_exception","reason":"Failed to parse mapping [json.Properties.thingService/timerMs/email/success]: Root mapping definition has unsupported parameters: [type : integer]","caused_by":{"type":"mapper_parsing_exception","reason":"Root mapping definition has unsupported parameters: [type : integer]"}}`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-types-not-showing-in-kibana/99885/3 "2017-10-06T20:00:50Z")
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