# Question about Kibana and multi-indexes

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-kibana-and-multi-indexes/50743
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 23, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-kibana-and-multi-indexes/50743 "2016-05-23T16:46:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Dominique\_Lechaudel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dominique_lechaudel/32/9882_2.png) [@Dominique\_Lechaudel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dominique_Lechaudel)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-kibana-and-multi-indexes/50743/1 "2016-05-23T16:46:36Z")

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Hi All,

I have a question about multi-indexes usage with Kibana

I have 4 kibana indexes (log-case1, log-case2, log-case3, log-case4) that contain the same data structure but of different origins.  
I can search these indexes via a log-\* search

How to display the original index name in Kibana graphics (log-case1, log-case2...) ?

None of the fields preceded by \_ (like \_index) are available in visualisation.

Any help would be highly appreciated

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### Author: ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-kibana-and-multi-indexes/50743/2 "2016-05-23T18:29:14Z")

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The reason those fields aren't displayed it because they can't be aggregated on. If you would like to aggregate on them you need to either add a field to your document that reflects that value, or setup your mappings in a way that the \_index can be aggregated on.

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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: [July 6, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-kibana-and-multi-indexes/50743/3 "2017-07-06T13:52:32Z")

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