# Equals NOT Filter in Kibana Visualisation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/equals-not-filter-in-kibana-visualisation/208475>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 19, 2019, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/equals-not-filter-in-kibana-visualisation/208475 "2019-11-19T09:49:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Moritz\_Kiesewetter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/moritz_kiesewetter/32/51243_2.png) [@Moritz\_Kiesewetter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moritz_Kiesewetter)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/equals-not-filter-in-kibana-visualisation/208475/1 "2019-11-19T09:49:18Z")

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Hope this will be a quick one:  
I try to set a filter in my dashboards which EXCLUDES a certain hostname.  
Kibana tells me i can use ` :` to equal a value and `:*` to search for an exisitin field and also the typical `and` & `or` commands. But there is no explanation about NOT equal or NOT existing..  
Thanks for any help!

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**Author:** ![Moritz\_Kiesewetter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/moritz_kiesewetter/32/51243_2.png) [@Moritz\_Kiesewetter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moritz_Kiesewetter)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/equals-not-filter-in-kibana-visualisation/208475/2 "2019-11-19T10:01:56Z")

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Solved it:  
NOT example\_field : "sample\_value"

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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:** [December 17, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/equals-not-filter-in-kibana-visualisation/208475/3 "2019-12-17T10:02:06Z")

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