# Parsing fields containing jason

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-fields-containing-jason/97364>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 17, 2017, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-fields-containing-jason/97364 "2017-08-17T08:26:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![SunilSaini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@SunilSaini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SunilSaini)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-fields-containing-jason/97364/1 "2017-08-17T08:26:42Z")

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Hi,

I am using Kibana 4.  
I have one field that contains message in Jason format (highlight in yellow in the image).  
Field: args = {"orderRequest":{"DeptId":83,"ClassId":4,"ItemId":2478,"StoreType":"ST"}}  
What i am looking for, is there a way in Kibana to query something like:  
Showing me all distinct DeptId?

DeptId is not a field in elastic. It is part of the json content in args field.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/5/15997b2bc33737626e09f9dcbf5d17f36404d9f2.png)

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**Author:** ![BigFunger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigfunger/32/7323_2.png) [@BigFunger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BigFunger)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-fields-containing-jason/97364/2 "2017-08-17T16:01:57Z")

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What does the mapping look like for your index?

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**Author:** ![SunilSaini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@SunilSaini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SunilSaini)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-fields-containing-jason/97364/3 "2017-08-18T05:51:45Z")

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I am not sure what do you mean by mapping for index?  
I am using nxlog as forwarder on clients and while sending the logs i am extracting the fields through a regex.  
"args' is on of the fields extracted from the log message.

All i am trying to do is create a visualizations that would look like:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/9/3988429c2ca1cafa14977f89ec02e4df519f962a.png)

Since DeptId is not a field, so this may not be possible, i guess. But can i do run time extraction from a json field?  
For example, Splunk has a quick and easiest way, all i have to do is add "| spath input=args" to the search query and job is done.

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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:** [September 15, 2017, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-fields-containing-jason/97364/4 "2017-09-15T05:52:02Z")

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Closed on September 15, 2017, 5:52am UTC

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