# How do I perform a missing query search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-missing-query-search/57349>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 5, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-missing-query-search/57349 "2016-08-05T12:31:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![xamox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xamox/32/5447_2.png) [@xamox](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xamox)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-missing-query-search/57349/1 "2016-08-05T12:31:45Z")

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I'm basically wondering how I can perform this operation in Kibana:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/2.x/\_dealing\_with\_null\_values.html#\_missing\_query](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/2.x/_dealing_with_null_values.html#_missing_query)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-missing-query-search/57349/2 "2016-08-07T02:07:05Z")

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You can add a new filter and then customise that with whatever query you want in it.

See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/discover.html#discover-filters](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/discover.html#discover-filters) for how to get started 🙂

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**Author:** ![xamox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xamox/32/5447_2.png) [@xamox](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xamox)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-missing-query-search/57349/3 "2016-08-09T14:28:55Z")

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Ohh, great, @warkolm I knew you could add filters but never realized you could edit them inline like that in Kibana. Thanks!

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-missing-query-search/57349/4 "2017-07-06T13:41:34Z")

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