# String field shows up in Discovery but not in Visualize

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-field-shows-up-in-discovery-but-not-in-visualize/56653>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 28, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-field-shows-up-in-discovery-but-not-in-visualize/56653 "2016-07-28T16:15:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jon\_Slusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@Jon\_Slusher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jon_Slusher)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-field-shows-up-in-discovery-but-not-in-visualize/56653/1 "2016-07-28T16:15:44Z")

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I started indexing our elasticsearch slowlogs to our ELK stack and I'm seeing some strange behavior with the `es_source` field, which I'm trying to use in a visualization.

On the Discover page in kibana, I have a saved search with several hits that all contain a string field I named `es_source`. In that field are the values from the source section of the ES slowlogs. On the Visualize page however, if I create any visualization and try to use the `es_source.raw` field in terms, it only shows 4 results. The only difference I can see is that the 4 results that show up are a lot smaller than the results that don't show up. I set the source limit in elasticsearch at the default 1000 characters. Is there something in Kibana that would limit the Visualization results? Has anyone seen something like this before?

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-field-shows-up-in-discovery-but-not-in-visualize/56653/2 "2016-08-03T17:44:43Z")

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When you say;

> [@Jon\_Slusher](#):
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> On the Discover page in kibana, I have a saved search with several hits

I'm assuming it's more than 4 hits?

If the default source limit in elasticsearch is 1000 characters (I'm not sure), why would you explicitly set that? I know I've done tests with string fields over 4000 characters long. Maybe 8000.

See See [Field maxlength?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/field-maxlength/45357)

Regards,  
Lee

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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, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-field-shows-up-in-discovery-but-not-in-visualize/56653/3 "2017-07-06T13:42:12Z")

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