It is still extracting field values, but as you are not storing the source, there is nothing for Kibana to show. You should still be able to build visualisations though even if you can not inspect the data.
As described in this blog post, you can save a lot of space by optimise mappings and index settings, without having to sacrifice functionality by disabling _source.
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