# Unable to create dashboards using "ip-x.x.x.x" String

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-dashboards-using-ip-x-x-x-x-string/41363>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 10, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-dashboards-using-ip-x-x-x-x-string/41363 "2016-02-10T09:48:10Z")\
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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:** [February 10, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-dashboards-using-ip-x-x-x-x-string/41363/1 "2016-02-10T09:48:10Z")

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I have field hostname -- \> which look's like this "ip-1.2.3.4" When I try to create a dashboard its seperating the hostname into multiple field. I think its because of analyzed field. I have convert it back to not\_analyzed.

Example:

> curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/vpic/hostname/\_mapping](http://localhost:9200/vpic/hostname/_mapping)' -d '  
> {  
> "hostname" : {  
> "properties" : {  
> "hostname" : {"type" : "string", "index" : "not\_analyzed" }  
> }  
> }  
> }'

But still unble to create virtualize for the same.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/0/027133e2d312deb2df9ceee91503493f1fa73ddd.png)

ip-X.X.X.X is broken and some weird chart is getting created

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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:** [February 10, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-dashboards-using-ip-x-x-x-x-string/41363/2 "2016-02-10T11:07:20Z")

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@Christian_Dahlqvist Please help.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-dashboards-using-ip-x-x-x-x-string/41363/3 "2016-02-10T12:19:42Z")

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It looks like the field is indeed analysed. You can not change the mapping for an existing index without reindexing the data. Have you done this?

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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:** [February 10, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-dashboards-using-ip-x-x-x-x-string/41363/4 "2016-02-10T13:04:29Z")

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How to reindex?. I haven't reindexed it but try to change mapping.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-dashboards-using-ip-x-x-x-x-string/41363/5 "2016-02-10T14:20:35Z")

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You will need to update the index template and then create a new index and write your data there. Look at [this post for some options how this can be done](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-mappings-of-large-elastic-search-index/27186).

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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, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-dashboards-using-ip-x-x-x-x-string/41363/6 "2017-07-06T14:02:40Z")

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