# Case insensitive keyword Search Kibana 5.4.1

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-keyword-search-kibana-5-4-1/94381>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 24, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-keyword-search-kibana-5-4-1/94381 "2017-07-24T18:34:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Louie\_Hernandez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Louie\_Hernandez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Louie_Hernandez)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-keyword-search-kibana-5-4-1/94381/1 "2017-07-24T18:34:52Z")

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Is this possible?

I've tried something like this in the Dev Tools.

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/2/f203a8051cff15aa4024ed15e67597f27208fc2a.PNG)

I know the Data Table only displays aggregations, but is there a way to make the Data Table visualization case Insensitive?

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-keyword-search-kibana-5-4-1/94381/2 "2017-07-24T18:38:31Z")

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Kibana shouldn't be doing anything special to the query when it's made, so whatever you query should be sent to Elasticsearch directly, and the response is what Kibana uses.

So the search should be case-insensitive here. Are you saying that values being displayed on the table vis (or any vis really) includes all case variations of the resulting data? Can you maybe share an example visualization?

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**Author:** ![Louie\_Hernandez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Louie\_Hernandez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Louie_Hernandez)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-keyword-search-kibana-5-4-1/94381/3 "2017-07-24T18:52:11Z")

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Sorry I meant to say Elastic Search for the topic not kibana.  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/2/42cdcb8fc07e6c1ce15c7fe0ba6a7d4918482de5.PNG)

I have four search fields, each looking at a different column. I tried using a normalizer, but I don't want my columns to be altered and be made all lowercase. I basically want to search with my fields being case insensitive.

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-keyword-search-kibana-5-4-1/94381/4 "2017-07-24T19:07:05Z")

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If you're using the lowercase analyzer, then it should work as you expect it to. That should be all it takes. Are you seeing different results when you search with and without upper case letters?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-insensitive-keyword-search-kibana-5-4-1/94381/5 "2017-08-21T19:07:11Z")

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