# First time seen value

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/first-time-seen-value/267420>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 16, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/first-time-seen-value/267420 "2021-03-16T20:16:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![cyberzlo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cyberzlo/32/65490_2.png) [@cyberzlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberzlo)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/first-time-seen-value/267420/1 "2021-03-16T20:16:30Z")

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Hi, is this possible to somehow find first time seen value, or new value for field etc? I would like to find on my dashboard only unknow values for specific field (but sometimes I have like 200 values so building query I guess is not good solution).

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**Author:** ![AClerk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclerk/32/55297_2.png) [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/first-time-seen-value/267420/2 "2021-03-16T23:25:22Z")

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Can you elaborate?  
What is "unknown values"?  
If it's in the index it is known, no?!

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**Author:** ![cyberzlo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cyberzlo/32/65490_2.png) [@cyberzlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberzlo)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/first-time-seen-value/267420/3 "2021-03-17T01:18:14Z")

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Let's say it is like IP address, I have some "known" IPs and some day there will be new IP address (which wasn't seen before, or in some period of time), I would like to know when it will happen 😉

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**Author:** ![AClerk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclerk/32/55297_2.png) [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/first-time-seen-value/267420/4 "2021-03-17T01:54:36Z")

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Again, not sure what you are after.  
But...

- You can count the number of IPs. Where count = 1 --\> new IP.
- Also you can check if [static lookup](https://blog.mimacom.com/kibana-static-lookup/) can be useful for you.

Elastic is not a prediction platform, so you cannot predict when an IP value enters the system.

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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:** [April 14, 2021, 1:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/first-time-seen-value/267420/5 "2021-04-14T01:55:20Z")

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