# Metricbeat does not create fields in document

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-does-not-create-fields-in-document/123623>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [March 12, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-does-not-create-fields-in-document/123623 "2018-03-12T19:40:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![zozo6015](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zozo6015/32/12117_2.png) [@zozo6015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zozo6015)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-does-not-create-fields-in-document/123623/1 "2018-03-12T19:40:13Z")

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Hello,

I am having metricbeat configured with system module and enabled but the it does not create the fields in the elasticsearch documents. However creating the vizualization does show the graphs.

```
- module: system
  metricsets:
    - cpu # CPU usage
    - filesystem # File system usage for each mountpoint
    - fsstat # File system summary metrics
    - load # CPU load averages
    - memory # Memory usage
    - network # Network IO
    - process # Per process metrics
    - process_summary # Process summary
    - uptime # System Uptime
    - core # Per CPU core usage
    - diskio # Disk IO
    - socket # Sockets and connection info (linux only)
  enabled: true
  period: 10s
  processes: ['.*']

  cpu.metrics: ["percentages"] # The other available options are normalized_percentages and ticks.
  core.metrics: ["percentages"] # The other available option is ticks.

  process.cmdline.cache.enabled: true

  process.cgroups.enabled: true

```

but in Kibana it only shows up if I disable the checkbox for disabling missing fields:

> **[Screenshot](https://prnt.sc/iq9yev)**
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Any idea how to fix this?

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-does-not-create-fields-in-document/123623/2 "2018-03-14T08:45:12Z")

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Not sure I fully understand this. The metricbeat data is sent correctly to Elasticsearch contain all documents with all fields. Then you want to filter on a field but it does not show up in Kibana? If yes, is that the case for all fields or a specific one?

- Which version of KB are you using?
- How did you create the index pattern?

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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:** [April 11, 2018, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-does-not-create-fields-in-document/123623/3 "2018-04-11T08:45:26Z")

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