# Dropping duplicate documents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-duplicate-documents/195280>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 14, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-duplicate-documents/195280 "2019-08-14T22:55:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Karthik2411](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Karthik2411](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karthik2411)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-duplicate-documents/195280/1 "2019-08-14T22:55:43Z")

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I am able to see that there are two documents from the same report in a span of 30 seconds.How can I get the latest or unique record at that particular time stamp??

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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:** [August 15, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-duplicate-documents/195280/2 "2019-08-15T20:45:19Z")

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Is the second column the `_id` field? Elasticsearch shouldn't allow documents with duplicate IDs.

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**Author:** ![Karthik2411](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Karthik2411](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karthik2411)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-duplicate-documents/195280/3 "2019-08-15T21:44:51Z")

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Hello @Bargs. Thank you for the reply. Yes the second column is the id. But the thing is we are getting the same report twice in a span of 30 seconds. How can I filter the double events???

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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:** [August 15, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-duplicate-documents/195280/4 "2019-08-15T22:32:22Z")

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Are you using `_routing` when indexing documents? That's the only way I can think of to get duplicate document IDs. If so, showing these "duplicates" is actually be design [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38873](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38873).

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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:** [September 12, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-duplicate-documents/195280/5 "2019-09-12T22:36:38Z")

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