# .monitoring-es\* indices: Kibana can't see all fields

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-indices-kibana-cant-see-all-fields/167606
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [February 8, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-indices-kibana-cant-see-all-fields/167606 "2019-02-08T10:42:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![rozling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rozling/32/16401_2.png) [@rozling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rozling)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-indices-kibana-cant-see-all-fields/167606/1 "2019-02-08T10:42:54Z")

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I'm trying to build a simple cluster monitoring dashboard, and I'm having trouble pulling data from .monitoring-es\* indices.

I've created (and re-created) an index pattern for .monitoring-es\* and .monitoring-es-6\*, however many fields that I'm interested in have a question mark symbol beside them indicating they aren't mapped:

 ![29](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/3/53e14903a181d5a949576f06415222a3c2f3ebaf.png)

However I can see that the data is there as adding the colums to a search shows populated data:

 ![23](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/5/4574c0e68576dddd7307be658dadf0538bda90bf.png)

When I try to access these fields in a visualization Kibana tells me they don't exist 😕

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### Author: ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-indices-kibana-cant-see-all-fields/167606/2 "2019-02-08T23:33:53Z")

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Hi there, if you go to Index Patterns, select your Index Pattern, and then click the "Refresh" button in the top right corner, you should be able to use these fields in visualizations. I hope this helps.

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### Author: ![rozling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rozling/32/16401_2.png) [@rozling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rozling)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2019, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-indices-kibana-cant-see-all-fields/167606/3 "2019-02-09T07:22:02Z")

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Hi, thanks for the reply - I should have mentioned that I tried that also; it picks up a few more fields, but still leaves out a lot of the cluster\_state ones I'm interested in:

 ![12](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/c/dc631853e8e012803f0d19aae7d98b3cf7899683.png)

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### Author: ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-indices-kibana-cant-see-all-fields/167606/4 "2019-02-11T19:13:21Z")

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Oh, I see. So, the "?" in Discover means the fields are in the `_source` of the docs that return from your query, but they're not in the index pattern... typically refreshing the fields should take care of that. It seems like this could be a bug. Would you mind [filing a bug report](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Bug_report.md) on our repo?

Thanks,  
CJ

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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: [March 11, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-es-indices-kibana-cant-see-all-fields/167606/5 "2019-03-11T19:13:33Z")

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