# Why is Kibana splitting my fields
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-kibana-splitting-my-fields/29271
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 14, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-kibana-splitting-my-fields/29271 "2015-09-14T17:06:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@scaarup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/scaarup)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-kibana-splitting-my-fields/29271/1 "2015-09-14T17:06:41Z")
In "Discover" my fields are looking fine, but when I want to use them in "Visualize", Kibana decides to split the fields on "space", "/", etc, which is very annoying. It is also converting everything to lowercase. Can I get in control of that? I already know about the raw-fields from logstash, but I would rather be in control.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-kibana-splitting-my-fields/29271/2 "2015-09-14T17:09:03Z")
If you don't want fields to be analyzed (i.e. if you want them to be equivalent to the .raw subfields), update Logstash's index template so that the fields are `not_analyzed`.
(This isn't really a Kibana question. Kibana only presents what the Elasticsearch indexes contain, and Logstash feeds Elasticsearch.)
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### Author:  [@scaarup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/scaarup)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-kibana-splitting-my-fields/29271/3 "2015-09-14T17:31:41Z")
Oh, so that's why. Thanks for clearing that out. Still pretty new to this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-kibana-splitting-my-fields/29271/4 "2017-07-06T14:13:07Z")