# Could you suggest me about searching with special character?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-you-suggest-me-about-searching-with-special-character/161778>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 21, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-you-suggest-me-about-searching-with-special-character/161778 "2018-12-21T03:49:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Waranon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@Waranon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Waranon)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-you-suggest-me-about-searching-with-special-character/161778/1 "2018-12-21T03:49:36Z")

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I have to query to search like MESSAGE : "fail processing: /afc/data/failed/\*" but I can't it failed  
Could you suggest me?

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-you-suggest-me-about-searching-with-special-character/161778/2 "2018-12-22T01:17:48Z")

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How are you sending this query in Kibana? Can you share a screenshot?

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**Author:** ![Waranon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@Waranon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Waranon)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-you-suggest-me-about-searching-with-special-character/161778/3 "2018-12-22T15:52:30Z")

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I want to search all message like this "fail processing: /afc/data/failed/\*"

I have attached file :  
 ![MESSAGE1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/8/a86e4741f8721ea33507acc79f793e32e26b413f.png)

 ![MESSAGE2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/4/e4ea7cec79f1e08568813a5b0020620e819b331c.png)

{  
"\_index": "filebeat-6.3.2-2018.12.19",  
"\_type": "doc",  
"\_id": "XgHsxGcBYmOYjLJUf-3Y",  
"\_version": 1,  
"\_score": null,  
"\_source": {  
"STATUS": "E",  
"offset": 131609047,  
"message": "Dec 18 23:45:04 cms01 dbglog (E) adapt.sh:21018: fail processing: /afc/data/failed/20181126/adapt/rd\_20181126\_122220\_000A1A27\_t00000003.dat#22",  
"host": {  
"name": "elk\_stack2"  
},  
"@timestamp": "2018-12-19T05:24:45.850Z",  
"tags": [  
"beats\_input\_codec\_plain\_applied"  
],  
"MONTH": "Dec",  
"TIME": "23:45:04",  
"beat": {  
"name": "elk\_stack2",  
"version": "6.3.2",  
"hostname": "elk\_stack2"  
},  
"DATE": "18",  
"SERVER\_NAME": "cms01",  
"source": "/var/log/cms/CMS\_20181218.log",  
"SOURCE": "adapt.sh:21018:",  
"MESSAGE": "fail processing: /afc/data/failed/20181126/adapt/rd\_20181126\_122220\_000A1A27\_t00000003.dat#22",  
"@version": "1",  
"ADAPTER": "dbglog "  
},  
"fields": {  
"@timestamp": [  
"2018-12-19T05:24:45.850Z"  
]  
},

**Thank you Spalger**

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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:** [January 19, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-you-suggest-me-about-searching-with-special-character/161778/4 "2019-01-19T15:52:34Z")

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