# How to find Documents where specific field is NULL

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-documents-where-specific-field-is-null/39483
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 18, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-documents-where-specific-field-is-null/39483 "2016-01-18T20:55:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![jjdepaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@jjdepaul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjdepaul)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-documents-where-specific-field-is-null/39483/1 "2016-01-18T20:55:22Z")

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I would like to find all records where the custInfo field (String type) is null. How can I specify a query in Kibana (4.3) to retrieve only those records?

Also, any records where custInfo is not null - regardless of value.

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### Author: ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-documents-where-specific-field-is-null/39483/2 "2016-01-18T23:19:15Z")

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Use can use all of the + and - buttons inside the sidebar in discover to create `exists` filters

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/4/470a7c52d5e5870b0d55de50226f29cceba50485.png)

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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, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-documents-where-specific-field-is-null/39483/3 "2017-07-06T14:04:43Z")

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