# Strings to long to be keyword?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strings-to-long-to-be-keyword/222805
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 9, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strings-to-long-to-be-keyword/222805 "2020-03-09T21:04:03Z")
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### Author: ![mwneenan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mwneenan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mwneenan)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strings-to-long-to-be-keyword/222805/1 "2020-03-09T21:04:03Z")

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I have been trying to create dashboards and visualizations, but when I attempt to not all of the data seems to get put in. I think this has something to do with the length of the string. Some of my strings are 400+ characters. Does anyone know how I can get the long strings to be able to be visualized?

 ![Screen Shot 2020-03-09 at 5.07.58 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/0/f0bbd8a5338a04d93ec6f43d14b5d69007478921.png)!

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strings-to-long-to-be-keyword/222805/2 "2020-03-09T22:09:06Z")

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Do you have samples of this long data that should be here and isn't?

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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: [April 6, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strings-to-long-to-be-keyword/222805/3 "2020-04-06T22:09:08Z")

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