# Case sensitivity

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-sensitivity/6285>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 4, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-sensitivity/6285 "2012-01-04T13:10:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![GambitK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@GambitK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GambitK)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-sensitivity/6285/1 "2012-01-04T13:10:41Z")

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Are searches on elasticsearch case sensitive?

Right now I'm searching the message field for "Term" and "term" and I get  
different results. Any way to change this behavior?  
I would like to be able to search without case sensitivity.

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**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-sensitivity/6285/2 "2012-01-04T13:37:08Z")

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On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 05:10 -0800, GambitK wrote:

> Are searches on elasticsearch case sensitive?
> 
> Right now I'm searching the message field for "Term" and "term" and I  
> get different results. Any way to change this behavior?  
> I would like to be able to search without case sensitivity.

Don't use a 'term' query. Use a 'text' query

clint

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**Author:** ![GambitK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@GambitK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GambitK)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-sensitivity/6285/3 "2012-01-04T13:41:00Z")

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I'm using elasticsearch-head to do direct searches on an index that was  
created by graylog2.  
My options for search are: term, wildcard, prefix, fuzzy, range and  
query\_string.

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**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-sensitivity/6285/4 "2012-01-04T13:52:25Z")

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On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 05:41 -0800, GambitK wrote:

> I'm using elasticsearch-head to do direct searches on an index that  
> was created by graylog2.  
> My options for search are: term, wildcard, prefix, fuzzy, range and  
> query\_string.

Then try the query\_string query

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clint

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**Author:** ![Karussell1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/50afbb/32.png) [@Karussell1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karussell1)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-sensitivity/6285/5 "2012-01-04T14:18:04Z")

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> My options for search are: term, wildcard, prefix, fuzzy, range and  
> query\_string.

No, you can do any query when using "Any Request"

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/case-sensitivity/6285/6 "2017-07-06T03:43:50Z")

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