# How to create a query to match a period

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-query-to-match-a-period/35085>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 19, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-query-to-match-a-period/35085 "2015-11-19T20:45:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mgirndt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@mgirndt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mgirndt)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-query-to-match-a-period/35085/1 "2015-11-19T20:45:52Z")

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I'm trying to create a query to find a specific that has a period in it (i.e. [server.server.com](http://server.server.com)) but kibana will not match the period in the name. Is there a way to make this work. When i search hostname:server.sever.com it will find everywhere that server is and give this back as a result.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,  
Michael

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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:** [November 20, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-query-to-match-a-period/35085/2 "2015-11-20T03:35:37Z")

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> [@mgirndt](#):
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> When i search hostname:server.sever.com it will find everywhere that server is and give this back as a result.

Isn't that what you want though?

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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, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-query-to-match-a-period/35085/3 "2017-07-06T14:08:42Z")

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