# The length of the variable to display on visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-length-of-the-variable-to-display-on-visualization/319510>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 22, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-length-of-the-variable-to-display-on-visualization/319510 "2022-11-22T06:08:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Anil\_Alapati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anil_alapati/32/110660_2.png) [@Anil\_Alapati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anil_Alapati)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-length-of-the-variable-to-display-on-visualization/319510/1 "2022-11-22T06:08:04Z")

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Hi, i am sending a variable tag to the logs. I can see the variable value in elastic discovery but I am unable to see the value of that particular variable for a particular value on the lens table.

if the length of the value in the variable is too long, does that effect the table value.

when I sent the length up to 100 chars, it is visible, but more than that i could not find.

Thank you for the help

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-length-of-the-variable-to-display-on-visualization/319510/2 "2022-11-22T09:57:27Z")

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Hi @Anil_Alapati ,

have you clicked on the blue expand icon in the cell? That should open a popover with the scrollable full length of the cell value:

![table_long_value](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/6/267e35c3b297bfd71ef4dd06416507e3fa36593b.gif)

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**Author:** ![Anil\_Alapati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anil_alapati/32/110660_2.png) [@Anil\_Alapati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anil_Alapati)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-length-of-the-variable-to-display-on-visualization/319510/3 "2022-11-26T12:37:54Z")

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Hi,

yes. I could see a variable ignore-above set to 256. Which lead to string disappear on Kibana. Any process to change it?

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-length-of-the-variable-to-display-on-visualization/319510/4 "2022-11-28T08:14:15Z")

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The `ignore-above` should affect both Discover and Lens.  
If you can see the field content in `Discover`, then it should be visible also in Lens.

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**Author:** ![Anil\_Alapati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anil_alapati/32/110660_2.png) [@Anil\_Alapati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anil_Alapati)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-length-of-the-variable-to-display-on-visualization/319510/5 "2022-11-28T12:01:25Z")

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I could see it in Discover but not on lens. What could be the issue. And this happened not once..more than couple of times

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-length-of-the-variable-to-display-on-visualization/319510/6 "2022-11-28T13:37:30Z")

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Is it possible to post a picture of the Lens table with the field content truncate?  
Also, what version of the stack are you using?

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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:** [December 26, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-length-of-the-variable-to-display-on-visualization/319510/7 "2022-12-26T13:38:03Z")

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