# Translating Unique ID to description

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translating-unique-id-to-description/172743>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 18, 2019, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translating-unique-id-to-description/172743 "2019-03-18T10:21:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Gabe.S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabe.s/32/41436_2.png) [@Gabe.S](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gabe.S)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translating-unique-id-to-description/172743/1 "2019-03-18T10:21:09Z")

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Hi all!  
I'm using Kibana and Elastic Search for logging errors from an application. Known bugs are assigned a unique ID (a GUID) so that they can be collated into a table. This lets us check the frequency of various bugs and errors pretty easily.

Unfortunately, these GUIDs are pretty inscrutable, as they're just a collection of numbers and letters. It'd be ideal if we could match these GUIDs with a super short description of the bug the represent, so that short description could be displayed on a visualization instead of the GUID itself (or in addition to the GUID).

We're quite happy to manually make the associations between a new GUID and the little discription string we'd like to tag it with. Where in the logging pipeline is the right place for this?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translating-unique-id-to-description/172743/2 "2019-03-22T10:31:13Z")

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Hello Gabe,

You can use a feature from Kibana to do this assignment. it was introduced with this PR: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19637](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19637)  
Alternatively, you can just create a new field at ingest time if you're using Logstash and there you should be able to do a similar mapping.

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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 19, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/translating-unique-id-to-description/172743/3 "2019-04-19T10:31:17Z")

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