# Kibana Dashboard search blocks bracket characters in \[\] prefix

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-search-blocks-bracket-characters-in-prefix/389725>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** dashboard\
**Created:** [August 17, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-search-blocks-bracket-characters-in-prefix/389725 "2026-08-17T15:40:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![kbujold\_wr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9fc29f/32.png) [@kbujold\_wr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kbujold_wr)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-search-blocks-bracket-characters-in-prefix/389725/1 "2026-08-17T15:40:56Z")

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We are using ELK 9.4.3

We are seeing this error when searching our dashboard. I though using brackets was a naming convention from Kibana itself so why is it giving an error?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/f/9f468c745054aefeb7525d4b8ea8ffbb370c63fc.png)

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-search-blocks-bracket-characters-in-prefix/389725/2 "2026-08-17T15:56:31Z")

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Thanks for reporting.

You can use `"[WRA]"` instead and that should work.

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**Author:** ![kbujold\_wr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9fc29f/32.png) [@kbujold\_wr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kbujold_wr)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-search-blocks-bracket-characters-in-prefix/389725/3 "2026-08-17T16:44:09Z")

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We worked around it by using `WRA: My Dashboard`. Is this an already know bug? Otherwise I will raise one.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-search-blocks-bracket-characters-in-prefix/389725/4 "2026-08-17T18:17:15Z")

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I raised it internally, thanks to your report.  
I'm not sure there's a public issue though about it.

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**Author:** ![kbujold\_wr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9fc29f/32.png) [@kbujold\_wr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kbujold_wr)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-search-blocks-bracket-characters-in-prefix/389725/5 "2026-08-19T18:20:53Z")

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Raised a bug [Cannot search for dashboards containing prefix brackets [] · Issue #286141 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/286141)