# Eliminate duplicates from Kibana dashboard from a particular column

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eliminate-duplicates-from-kibana-dashboard-from-a-particular-column/52054
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 7, 2016, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eliminate-duplicates-from-kibana-dashboard-from-a-particular-column/52054 "2016-06-07T10:45:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![gaurav\_anand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@gaurav\_anand](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gaurav_anand)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eliminate-duplicates-from-kibana-dashboard-from-a-particular-column/52054/1 "2016-06-07T10:45:19Z")

</div>

I have a ELK Dashboard which consumes data from kafka.  
There are 4 columns in the inputted JSON data. For example columns are col1,col2,col3,col4.

There are 100 records which are fed to elastic search everyday.

Suppose i want to eliminate duplicates based on a particular column say col1 , is there a way to do on kibana dashboard.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eliminate-duplicates-from-kibana-dashboard-from-a-particular-column/52054/2 "2016-06-07T20:06:22Z")

</div>

I believe what you are looking for is this: [Remove duplicate documents from a search in kibana4](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-duplicate-documents-from-a-search-in-kibana4/26453). If so, as that thread says, this isn't currently available in Kibana but please +1 the issue for it with a link to this this post: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3546](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3546)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### 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, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eliminate-duplicates-from-kibana-dashboard-from-a-particular-column/52054/3 "2017-07-06T13:51:19Z")

</div>


