# This field is not indexed thus unavailable for visualization and search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/this-field-is-not-indexed-thus-unavailable-for-visualization-and-search/33374>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 30, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/this-field-is-not-indexed-thus-unavailable-for-visualization-and-search/33374 "2015-10-30T14:13:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![SureshSala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@SureshSala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SureshSala)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/this-field-is-not-indexed-thus-unavailable-for-visualization-and-search/33374/1 "2015-10-30T14:13:19Z")

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How to Solve this Error:  
This field is not indexed thus unavailable for visualization and search.

I am unable to visualize new added index.

Need Help.

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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:** [October 31, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/this-field-is-not-indexed-thus-unavailable-for-visualization-and-search/33374/2 "2015-10-31T23:17:41Z")

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You need to make it an indexed field, which will mean changing your mappings and then reindexing the data.

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**Author:** ![zenosgao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f14d63/32.png) [@zenosgao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zenosgao)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/this-field-is-not-indexed-thus-unavailable-for-visualization-and-search/33374/3 "2016-03-28T06:48:01Z")

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If you see “This field is not indexed thus unavailable for visualization  
and search” ou “unindexed fields cannot be searched” when trying to add  
the Apache fields you need to reload the fields ( [https://rafaelmt.net/en/2015/09/01/kibana-tutorial/#refresh-fields](https://rafaelmt.net/en/2015/09/01/kibana-tutorial/#refresh-fields))  
all above is referenced by :[https://rafaelmt.net/en/2015/09/01/kibana-tutorial/](https://rafaelmt.net/en/2015/09/01/kibana-tutorial/)

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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, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/this-field-is-not-indexed-thus-unavailable-for-visualization-and-search/33374/4 "2017-07-06T13:57:41Z")

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