# How to show field name in Legend?

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-show-field-name-in-legend/13262>\
**Category:** InfluxDB\
**Created:** [January 6, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-to-show-field-name-in-legend/13262 "2019-01-06T12:00:53Z")\
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If you were accessing the raw field ( without mean, last, etc ) and no groupBy - $col would contain the field name.

Without “Alias” (within grafana ux) or “AS” (in raw query editor) - Influx will return the function name that created the column, not the original field name; in the returned data.

As mentioned; you may need to manually set an ‘alias’ for each field you need in the legend.

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