# Dedup in Kibana search

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedup-in-kibana-search/138041
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 29, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedup-in-kibana-search/138041 "2018-06-29T22:25:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Rohit\_Jawle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Rohit\_Jawle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rohit_Jawle)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedup-in-kibana-search/138041/1 "2018-06-29T22:25:08Z")

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In splunk, there is a command called dedup, followed by a field name. How do you do this in elk?

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedup-in-kibana-search/138041/2 "2018-06-30T07:22:06Z")

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What are you trying to do?

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### Author: ![Rohit\_Jawle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Rohit\_Jawle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rohit_Jawle)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedup-in-kibana-search/138041/3 "2018-07-05T18:48:14Z")

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I'm trying to get it so that for every value in a field (for example, for every individual ip address), it only shows the first result.

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedup-in-kibana-search/138041/4 "2018-07-05T20:00:14Z")

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Then look at doing an aggregation of some sort on the IP field.

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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 2, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedup-in-kibana-search/138041/5 "2018-08-02T20:00:20Z")

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