# Comparing 2 docs

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 18, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454 "2018-03-18T20:05:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author: ![ganessen23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@ganessen23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ganessen23)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/1 "2018-03-18T20:05:59Z")

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Hi guys,

I want to compare 2 docs. Lets say I have doc A & doc B (csv). Both docs contains same logs. A contains 15 lines , and B contains 10 lines (5 lines removed).  
How should i proceed to find out which lines are missing in Doc B when compared with Doc A??

Thanks,  
Ganessen.

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### Author: ![ganessen23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@ganessen23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ganessen23)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/2 "2018-03-18T20:10:16Z")

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++ just want to add that both docs are in the same index

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### Author: ![ganessen23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@ganessen23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ganessen23)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/3 "2018-04-06T06:09:01Z")

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Anyone???..please help..

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### Author: ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/4 "2018-04-06T22:53:02Z")

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Hi @ganessen23, there's no good way to do this in Kibana today, other than opening each doc in a tab in your browser and comparing each doc by eye. A "document diff" view sounds like a cool idea though, I'd recommend filing an enhancement request on our github repo [https://github.com/elastic/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana)

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### Author: ![ganessen23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@ganessen23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ganessen23)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/5 "2018-04-12T07:06:26Z")

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A document diff???..is that a feature in elasticsearch??

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### Author: ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/6 "2018-04-12T14:21:23Z")

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No, but we could implement it in kibana

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### Author: ![ganessen23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@ganessen23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ganessen23)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/7 "2018-04-20T07:18:24Z")

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Can you give any leads which I can use to start with..

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### Author: ![Wesley\_Acheson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wesley_acheson/32/46771_2.png) [@Wesley\_Acheson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wesley_Acheson)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/8 "2018-04-23T12:52:58Z")

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Was there an enhancment request for this in the end?

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### Author: ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/9 "2018-04-26T22:05:49Z")

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I didn't see one come in

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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: [May 24, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-2-docs/124454/10 "2018-05-24T22:17:37Z")

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