# Easy question for you experts - need help with a query **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Created:** [September 16, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990 "2025-09-16T18:37:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HaroldMelamed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@HaroldMelamed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HaroldMelamed)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/1 "2025-09-16T18:37:24Z")
I’m trying to do a search on multiple fields in collection. This is what I tried. How do I fix this? > ``` > search_query = { > > "query": { > > "match": { > > "RunID": RunID, > > "host": host_name > > } > > } > > } > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Kathleen\_DeRusso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kathleen_derusso/32/132039_2.png) [@Kathleen\_DeRusso](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kathleen_DeRusso)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/2 "2025-09-16T18:59:14Z")
Hey there @HaroldMelamed and welcome to the community! You may want to check out our [multi-match query](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-multi-match-query), that should get you what you want for the same search string. Or a [boolean](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/query-languages/query-dsl/query-dsl-bool-query) query for multiple terms. Happy searching! ---
**Author:** ![HaroldMelamed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@HaroldMelamed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HaroldMelamed)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/3 "2025-09-16T19:10:45Z")
what I’m looking for is to search two different fields in a single query with different search criteria. For example (runID = 12324 and host = LRE) ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/4 "2025-09-16T19:50:07Z")
Hi @HaroldMelamed @Kathleen_DeRusso gave you the correct answer using a `bool` ```auto { "query": { "bool" : { "must" : { "term" : { "runID" : "12324" }, "term" : { "host" : "LRE" } }, .... ``` ---
**Author:** ![HaroldMelamed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@HaroldMelamed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HaroldMelamed)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/5 "2025-09-16T20:09:32Z")
Thank you very much the exact query. I need even the most basic help these days. At my age it appears that my brain is full . 😀 ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/6 "2025-09-16T22:07:19Z")
All good ... Many of the free LLMs are a great place to start with helping to write queries. ---
**Author:** ![HaroldMelamed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@HaroldMelamed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HaroldMelamed)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/7 "2025-09-17T03:20:43Z")
here at the bank we aren’t doing AI yet. They promised soon. Thanks for the idea!! ---
**Author:** ![HaroldMelamed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@HaroldMelamed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HaroldMelamed)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/8 "2025-09-17T18:08:55Z")
@stephenb The code works but VSCODE isn’t appreciative of the code. > ``` > search_query = { > > "query": { > > "bool": { > > "must": { > > "term": {"runID": RunID}, > > "term": {"host": host_name} > > } > > } > > } > > } > > ``` ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/9/e90edeb7c7cce573135954f16e89f28da8310e74.png) ---
**Author:** ![Kathleen\_DeRusso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kathleen_derusso/32/132039_2.png) [@Kathleen\_DeRusso](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kathleen_DeRusso)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/9 "2025-09-17T19:06:46Z")
If you look at the API docs for the bool query linked above, I think you’re missing some { } to denote objects in json for each term query. ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-question-for-you-experts-need-help-with-a-query/381990/10 "2025-09-17T19:52:16Z")
Working Example ... sorry I wrote that first one on my phone You need the array bracket `[]` If you Go into Kibana Dev Tools, the Smart Editor will help with all that.. If you are trying to write DSL outside of that, you will likely make many mistakes 🙂 ```auto POST my_index/_doc { "foo" : "fooish", "bar" : "barish" } POST my_index/_doc { "foo" : "fooish", "bar" : "notbarish" } GET my_index/_search { "query": { "bool": { "must": [ { "term": { "foo": "fooish" } }, { "term": { "bar": "barish" } } ] } } } ```