# Help with kibana partial string search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-kibana-partial-string-search/19166
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 8, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-kibana-partial-string-search/19166 "2014-08-08T16:39:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Kingdom\_Joy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kingdom_Joy)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-kibana-partial-string-search/19166/1 "2014-08-08T16:39:15Z")
Hello,
I have logs that look like these:
07 Aug 2014 20:59:15,903 [ERROR] some-id
this.is.a.package.ExceptionTranslator: ABCD FHGHIK EX:Failed to invoke
I use ELK stack. In Kibana I am trying to search for logs that contain
string "ABCD FHGHIK EX" but it returns no data, I've tried using regex
/ABCD FHGHIK EX\*/ but it also returns no data. I also tried escaping
whitespace /ABCD\ FHGHIK\ EX\*/ but it also returns nothing.
Could someone explain how to make this type of search work?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Cristian\_Falcas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cristian_Falcas)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-kibana-partial-string-search/19166/2 "2014-08-08T17:52:51Z")
Try like this:
._"ABCD FHGHIK EX"._
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Kingdom Joy [thekingdomofjoy@gmail.com](mailto:thekingdomofjoy@gmail.com)
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have logs that look like these:
> 07 Aug 2014 20:59:15,903 [ERROR] some-id
> this.is.a.package.ExceptionTranslator: ABCD FHGHIK EX:Failed to invoke
>
> I use ELK stack. In Kibana I am trying to search for logs that contain
> string "ABCD FHGHIK EX" but it returns no data, I've tried using regex
> /ABCD FHGHIK EX\*/ but it also returns no data. I also tried escaping
> whitespace /ABCD\ FHGHIK\ EX\*/ but it also returns nothing.
>
> Could someone explain how to make this type of search work?
>
> Thank you!
>
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### Author:  [@Kingdom\_Joy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kingdom_Joy)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-kibana-partial-string-search/19166/3 "2014-08-11T05:54:48Z")
Thank you for suggestion but it doesn't work for me ;(
On Friday, 8 August 2014 10:53:29 UTC-7, Cristian Falcas wrote:
> Try like this:
>
> ._"ABCD FHGHIK EX"._
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Kingdom Joy \<[theking...@gmail.com](mailto:theking...@gmail.com)
> \\> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have logs that look like these:
> > 07 Aug 2014 20:59:15,903 [ERROR] some-id
> > this.is.a.package.ExceptionTranslator: ABCD FHGHIK EX:Failed to invoke
> >
> > I use ELK stack. In Kibana I am trying to search for logs that contain
> > string "ABCD FHGHIK EX" but it returns no data, I've tried using regex
> > /ABCD FHGHIK EX\*/ but it also returns no data. I also tried escaping
> > whitespace /ABCD\ FHGHIK\ EX\*/ but it also returns nothing.
> >
> > Could someone explain how to make this type of search work?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
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#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-with-kibana-partial-string-search/19166/4 "2017-07-06T01:09:41Z")