# Unable to access underlaying indexed log messages from Kibana Heatmap using a Search filter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-access-underlaying-indexed-log-messages-from-kibana-heatmap-using-a-search-filter/206450>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 4, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-access-underlaying-indexed-log-messages-from-kibana-heatmap-using-a-search-filter/206450 "2019-11-04T17:25:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![rade95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@rade95](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rade95)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-access-underlaying-indexed-log-messages-from-kibana-heatmap-using-a-search-filter/206450/1 "2019-11-04T17:25:01Z")

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Hello,

I have older Kibana v5.6.4 running as a log aggregator, part of a custom ELK implementation. I have indexed log database and I can Search my logs based on my criteria. I can visualize my messages using that same search filter. I get a nice heatmap showing severity of the log messages during my time interval. However, when I click on a single heatmap element, I am presented with another filter to accept and when I do, I get another heatmap which shows nothing meaningful. What I want to do is to be able to get to individual messages showing up in a heatmap element. Each element may have 1-1000 or something messages, but I don't see way to select a heatmap element to get to the actual messages. A Search may have keywords such as `hostname:my-linux` `message:critical`. I want to display results of the second search based on a heatmap element I chose which is represented by a time interval and severity. X-axis is Date Histogram, Y-axis is hostname and Split Chart is Severity in my case.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![rade95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@rade95](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rade95)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-access-underlaying-indexed-log-messages-from-kibana-heatmap-using-a-search-filter/206450/2 "2019-11-05T21:08:15Z")

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I resolved this by including message.keyword in Split-Chart.

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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 3, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-access-underlaying-indexed-log-messages-from-kibana-heatmap-using-a-search-filter/206450/3 "2019-12-03T21:19:26Z")

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