{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/17163","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/17163/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/17163/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/17163/events","html_url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/17163","id":141538149,"number":17163,"title":"Field alias","user":{"login":"carlosvega","id":1414389,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1414389?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega","html_url":"https://github.com/carlosvega","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2016-03-17T10:17:57Z","updated_at":"2016-03-17T13:35:04Z","closed_at":"2016-03-17T13:32:12Z","body":"I found that, despite fields with parentheses are valid on Kibana, timelion do not allow it even if they are escaped or enclosed into quotation marks. I opened an issue in the Timelion github but, I thought, what about alias of fields?, sometimes there are long fields with details about the metric (like if it's on ms or seconds) and could be quite useful to have field alias on elasticsearch or kibana. Like the index alias."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/comments/197881472","html_url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/17163#issuecomment-197881472","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/17163","id":197881472,"user":{"login":"carlosvega","id":1414389,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1414389?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega","html_url":"https://github.com/carlosvega","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/carlosvega/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-17T13:35:04Z","updated_at":"2016-03-17T13:35:04Z","body":"No it is relevant to Elasticsearch the same way the index aliases are. This could be useful in general for the REST API of elastic as well. "}}