# Winlogbeat Dashboard Problem - Visualize: "field" is a required parameter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-dashboard-problem-visualize-field-is-a-required-parameter/126995>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [April 5, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-dashboard-problem-visualize-field-is-a-required-parameter/126995 "2018-04-05T21:06:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![George\_Jetson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/george_jetson/32/29663_2.png) [@George\_Jetson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/George_Jetson)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-dashboard-problem-visualize-field-is-a-required-parameter/126995/1 "2018-04-05T21:06:21Z")

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New ELK 6.2.3 installation on Windows. I installed WLB on a Windows 2012R2 server and specified in the yml to setup dashboard. The index pattern and dashboard are there but I am getting the following error:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/c/8c4d8421a23773051268dc887c6de2e3272eb4e2.png)

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-dashboard-problem-visualize-field-is-a-required-parameter/126995/2 "2018-04-05T21:28:41Z")

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This can be caused by not having data in your winlogbeat indexes, please check that you have any data in the `winlogbeat-*` indexes in Elasticsearch.

If you have, or you are not sure, you can also try to [reload the index field list](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/index-patterns.html#reload-fields).

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**Author:** ![George\_Jetson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/george_jetson/32/29663_2.png) [@George\_Jetson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/George_Jetson)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-dashboard-problem-visualize-field-is-a-required-parameter/126995/3 "2018-04-05T21:36:25Z")

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Thanks, I have 83K events in there now. I also refreshed the index pattern. Here is the full dashboard output.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/b/bbd3c519cf40876f947dba07409b6b776419c5ec.png)

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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:** [May 3, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-dashboard-problem-visualize-field-is-a-required-parameter/126995/4 "2018-05-03T21:36:37Z")

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