# Does kibana support fuzzy search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-support-fuzzy-search/167568>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 8, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-support-fuzzy-search/167568 "2019-02-08T04:46:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![li\_jessen2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/li_jessen2016/32/38817_2.png) [@li\_jessen2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/li_jessen2016)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-support-fuzzy-search/167568/1 "2019-02-08T04:46:18Z")

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Does Kibana support fuzziness in the search input box on the top of the Discover page?  
I tried as what shows in the [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#query-string-syntax](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#query-string-syntax) fuzziness,  
but returned o result. I am using Elasticsearch 6.5.

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-support-fuzzy-search/167568/2 "2019-02-08T20:25:04Z")

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Hi there, yes the search input box in Discover supports fuzziness. Have you tried using the `~` operator? See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#\_fuzziness](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#_fuzziness) for more info.

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**Author:** ![li\_jessen2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/li_jessen2016/32/38817_2.png) [@li\_jessen2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/li_jessen2016)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-support-fuzzy-search/167568/3 "2019-02-09T00:42:08Z")

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I tried "JetBeats" and returns all the documents with Carrier field value of "JetBeats". But when I tried"JetBeat~", it says: "No results match your search criteria".  
So why?

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-support-fuzzy-search/167568/4 "2019-02-09T00:53:20Z")

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Have you tried `Carrier:Jetbeat~`? Would you mind sharing a screenshot?

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**Author:** ![li\_jessen2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/li_jessen2016/32/38817_2.png) [@li\_jessen2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/li_jessen2016)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-support-fuzzy-search/167568/5 "2019-02-09T01:02:54Z")

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![snapshot1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/7/075a6514f2b22dad169335cc88aeb013fc5b4c35.png)  
 ![snapshot3](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/6/867ee3895dbccdf57a0d6bfc38f3f2c0d9e51c81.png)

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-support-fuzzy-search/167568/6 "2019-02-11T22:03:26Z")

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Ah, I think you might be using the new [Kibana Query Language](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.5/kuery-query.html). KQL doesn't currently support fuzzy matching. If you click the "Options" button on the top right, you should be able to disable it and revert to the old Lucene syntax, which does support fuzzy matching:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/f/1fbd777f3f36c5047990ed99d8b8ca08482531b8.png)

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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:** [March 11, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-support-fuzzy-search/167568/7 "2019-03-11T22:03:35Z")

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