# Duplicate entries in Kibana - but Showing unique \_id for each entry

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-entries-in-kibana-but-showing-unique--id-for-each-entry/63796>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 24, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-entries-in-kibana-but-showing-unique--id-for-each-entry/63796 "2016-10-24T19:48:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![vishnu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@vishnu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vishnu)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-entries-in-kibana-but-showing-unique--id-for-each-entry/63796/1 "2016-10-24T19:48:04Z")

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Dear Supports,

Kibana is showing duplicate entries in the dashboard but its creating unique \_id's for each entry.

Highlighted the unique ids. But all the messages are same. Not sure why this is happening ?

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/7/776801c1cf824498f6e70da3586920806791498d.JPG)

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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:** [October 24, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-entries-in-kibana-but-showing-unique--id-for-each-entry/63796/2 "2016-10-24T23:51:09Z")

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Hi Vishnu,

It looks like the same documents are being indexed multiple times. How are you adding documents to Elasticsearch?

Also, have you tried searching the forums for anybody having a similar problem? Take a look at these results for "duplicate documents": [https://discuss.elastic.co/search?q=duplicate%20documents](https://discuss.elastic.co/search?q=duplicate%20documents). It looks like there are a lot of threads on this topic. Maybe someone has found a solution that fits your situation?

CJ

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**Author:** ![vishnu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@vishnu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vishnu)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-entries-in-kibana-but-showing-unique--id-for-each-entry/63796/3 "2016-10-25T18:18:46Z")

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Hi CJ,

Thanks for the response.

Currrently i am using the ouput elasticsearch filter.

output {  
elasticsearch {  
hosts =\> ["10.10.2.141:9200"]  
action =\> "index"  
}  
}

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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:** [October 25, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-entries-in-kibana-but-showing-unique--id-for-each-entry/63796/4 "2016-10-25T22:33:13Z")

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Hi Vishnu, I'm not very familiar with this part of our stack. Would you mind asking in the [Logstash](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/logstash) and [Elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/elasticsearch) forums? I think you'll have more luck there.

Thanks,  
CJ

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-entries-in-kibana-but-showing-unique--id-for-each-entry/63796/5 "2017-07-06T13:35:39Z")

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