# Filter by empty or non-existing field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-by-empty-or-non-existing-field/69795>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 22, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-by-empty-or-non-existing-field/69795 "2016-12-22T13:27:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![enp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/enp/32/3825_2.png) [@enp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/enp)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-by-empty-or-non-existing-field/69795/1 "2016-12-22T13:27:49Z")

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Hi,

Is it possible to not show documents in which some fileld is not exists or equal empty string? I can't find how to do this via query string - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html) - and can't find a way to use query DSL in Kibana

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**Author:** ![Arul\_Pragasam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arul_pragasam/32/14063_2.png) [@Arul\_Pragasam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arul_Pragasam)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-by-empty-or-non-existing-field/69795/2 "2016-12-22T14:29:33Z")

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You can filter them by _exists_:"field"

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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:** [January 19, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-by-empty-or-non-existing-field/69795/3 "2017-01-19T14:30:01Z")

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