# How to search special character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 5, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-character/26838 "2015-08-05T00:32:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nathaniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba8739/32.png) [@nathaniel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nathaniel)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-character/26838/1 "2015-08-05T00:32:26Z")
Hi guys, I am a newbie in Kibana. I have a bunch of logs stored in Elasticsearch which contains IP address, and I want to search them via Kibana. But I realized it is very hard to do so. For say the IP is 127.0.0.1, no matter I search for "127.0.0.1" or "127.0.0.1" or anything, elasticsearch cannot recognize. The same thing happens with the other special characters like "-" or "\*". I wonder how can I search these characters? I would really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-character/26838/2 "2015-08-05T06:13:15Z")
The following syntax should work: ` geoip.ip:"76.103.107.116" ` ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/7/77edd130568e1155b38e9a0d5ca904f311149272.png) ---
**Author:** ![nathaniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba8739/32.png) [@nathaniel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nathaniel)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-character/26838/3 "2015-08-05T23:29:16Z")
Thank you so much Tanya! You saved my day! ---
**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, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-character/26838/4 "2017-07-06T14:15:10Z")