In Kibana chart I want to filter 'url' field that starts with string CANCELLED so I wrote a regex: ^CANCELLED.* but when I use filter in Discover tab then I notice that filter doesn't work properly because it also accepts urls with phrase CANCELLED inside of an url. Is it because Kibana regex uses …

Hi Michael, if you want to use a regex in the query you have to surround it in forward slashes (like common in many programming languages). Also since I assume you want to add the period for matching anything. url:/CANCELLED.*/ Also in your specific case, you are not actually needing a regex and …

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Kibana filter regex 'string starts with' doesn't work

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MichaelDz (Michael) May 11, 2018, 9:50am 6

Are you saying that it's impossible to add regex filters to a chart? Are filters in logstash only workaround?

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Kibana filter regex 'string starts with' doesn't work

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