# Excluding field which return null in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excluding-field-which-return-null-in-kibana/26882>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 5, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excluding-field-which-return-null-in-kibana/26882 "2015-08-05T11:27:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excluding-field-which-return-null-in-kibana/26882/2 "2015-08-11T23:19:03Z")

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I don't think you can do that from the exclude patterns, but you could combine this visualization with an "exists" filter: [Where to add a missing filter in this Kibana search](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-to-add-a-missing-filter-in-this-kibana-search/24845/2)  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/\_dealing\_with\_null\_values.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_dealing_with_null_values.html)

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