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View field statistics

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The Field statistics view in Discover provides statistical summaries and visualizations of your data fields. View distributions, top values, minimum and maximum ranges, and cardinality to quickly understand your data quality and patterns. Use field statistics to identify data issues, understand field characteristics, and discover insights before building visualizations.

Note

Field statistics are only available when Discover is in default mode, not in ES|QL mode.

This example explores the fields in the sample web logs data, or you can use your own data.

  1. Go to Discover.

  2. Expand the data view dropdown, and select Kibana Sample Data Logs.

  3. If you don’t see any results, expand the time range, for example, to Last 7 days.

  4. Click Field statistics. The table summarizes how many documents in the sample contain each field for the selected time period the number of distinct values, and the distribution.

    Field statistics view in Discover showing a summary of document data.

  5. Expand the hour_of_day field. For numeric fields, Discover provides the document statistics, minimum, median, and maximum values, a list of top values, and a distribution chart. Use this chart to get a better idea of how the values in the data are clustered.

    Field statistics for a numeric field.

  6. Expand the geo.coordinates field.

    For geo fields, Discover provides the document statistics, examples, and a map of the coordinates.

    Field statistics for a geo field.

  7. Explore additional field types to see the statistics that Discover provides.

  8. To create a Lens visualization of the field data, click the magnifying glass icon to create a visualization of the data in Lens or the Maps icon to explore the data in a map in the Actions column.