# Character limit in Grafana

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/character-limit-in-grafana/41908>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 20, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/character-limit-in-grafana/41908 "2021-01-20T14:55:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![moshensm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@moshensm](https://community.grafana.com/u/moshensm)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/character-limit-in-grafana/41908/1 "2021-01-20T14:55:44Z")

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Is there a limitation on how long a character can be for Grafana to poll it from Elasticsearch?

I am using Grafana 7.3.0 and anything that’s above 256 characters isn’t displayed / calculated. I can query the data fine using curl but when I add it to my dashboard I am unable to see the data and Grafana shows it as missing.

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**Author:** ![jangaraj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/jangaraj/32/39197_2.png) [@jangaraj](https://community.grafana.com/u/jangaraj)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/character-limit-in-grafana/41908/2 "2021-01-20T15:39:06Z")

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It depends where and how you are displaying that long string, which panel is used. I’m pulling images from ES (so size is a few kBs) and I’m displaying them in the table panel without any issue.

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**Author:** ![moshensm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@moshensm](https://community.grafana.com/u/moshensm)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/character-limit-in-grafana/41908/3 "2021-01-21T17:15:16Z")

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Thanks, I tried using a table panel / stats counter. None of them return a value, when I look at the query response I see Grafana is just not able to get a value.

In the table panel I am merely displaying the query result, not doing any transformation etc on it.

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**Author:** ![jangaraj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/jangaraj/32/39197_2.png) [@jangaraj](https://community.grafana.com/u/jangaraj)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/character-limit-in-grafana/41908/4 "2021-01-21T19:37:51Z")

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First use query inspector to verify es result response . And also provide reproducible description, pls? I’m using table panel is not good description, because that panel has x options, which gives many possible combinations.