# How to get null value in drop down when applying filter in Kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-null-value-in-drop-down-when-applying-filter-in-kibana/132763
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 22, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-null-value-in-drop-down-when-applying-filter-in-kibana/132763 "2018-05-22T09:17:20Z")
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### Author:  [@remo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/remo)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-null-value-in-drop-down-when-applying-filter-in-kibana/132763/1 "2018-05-22T09:17:20Z")
I am pushing mule logs to elasticsearch. In the logs some fields have no data that means it has null populated in those fields. when ever I want to apply filter on those fields on kibana I am not getting null in the dropdown. Is it not possible to get null in dropdown?
To resolve this I have populated NA in those particular fields then I am able to filter out those. But is that a feasible solution. Any other solution would be greatly helpful.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-null-value-in-drop-down-when-applying-filter-in-kibana/132763/2 "2018-05-22T14:24:57Z")
if the field is not set you could add a filter like `field` - `DOES NOT EXIST` (one of the values in the second dropdown on filter editor)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-null-value-in-drop-down-when-applying-filter-in-kibana/132763/3 "2018-06-19T14:37:49Z")
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