- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
- What’s new in 7.12
- Kibana concepts
- Quick start
- Set up
- Install Kibana
- Configure Kibana
- Alerting and action settings
- APM settings
- Banners settings
- Development tools settings
- Graph settings
- Fleet settings
- i18n settings
- Logs settings
- Metrics settings
- Machine learning settings
- Monitoring settings
- Reporting settings
- Secure settings
- Search sessions settings
- Security settings
- Spaces settings
- Task Manager settings
- Telemetry settings
- Start and stop Kibana
- Access Kibana
- Securing access to Kibana
- Add data
- Upgrade Kibana
- Embed Kibana content in a web page
- Configure monitoring
- Configure security
- Production considerations
- Discover
- Dashboard
- Canvas
- Maps
- Machine learning
- Graph
- Observability
- APM
- Elastic Security
- Dev Tools
- Stack Monitoring
- Stack Management
- Fleet
- Reporting
- Alerting and Actions
- REST API
- Kibana plugins
- Accessibility
- Release notes
- Developer guide
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Field management
editField management
editWhenever possible, Kibana uses the same field type for display as Elasticsearch. However, a few field types Elasticsearch supports are not available in Kibana. Use field formatters to customize how your fields are displayed in Kibana, regardless of how they are stored in Elasticsearch.
Kibana provides these field formatters:
To format a field:
- Open the main menu, and click Stack Management > Index Patterns.
- Click the index pattern that contains the field you want to format.
-
Find the field you want to format and click the edit icon (
).
- Enter a custom label for the field, if needed.
-
Select a format and fill in the details.
Was this helpful?
Thank you for your feedback.