# Controls - Pre Filtering

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controls-pre-filtering/363157
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** visualisation
**Created:** [July 15, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controls-pre-filtering/363157 "2024-07-15T14:21:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/controls-pre-filtering/363157/1 "2024-07-15T14:21:59Z")

</div>

Hello,

As continuing to leverage Controls, is there a way to filter the data when creating controls? The issue is alot of data is considered since its under the same index, but we want to narrow it down like only show events for specific dataset?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/f/0ff65d0e8de97aabb55472273c57ba54401edc9e.png)