# Kibana Query for String Pattern Match

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-query-for-string-pattern-match/28058>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 25, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-query-for-string-pattern-match/28058 "2015-08-25T23:30:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![prashant\_sharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea666f/32.png) [@prashant\_sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prashant_sharma)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-query-for-string-pattern-match/28058/1 "2015-08-25T23:30:07Z")

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In Kibana search what would be best practice to search for string patterns. My use case here is How would one go about searching in a large txt attribute. I have tried query patterns as myAttr1: attrVal1 AND sDetails: _CustomStringPattern_

Using a _Pattern_ causes the Kibana UI to become unresponsive. Any other recommendations to run these string search queries.

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**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 28, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-query-for-string-pattern-match/28058/2 "2015-08-28T04:08:39Z")

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Is the UI unresponsive or the backend?

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**Author:** ![prashant\_sharma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea666f/32.png) [@prashant\_sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prashant_sharma)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-query-for-string-pattern-match/28058/3 "2015-08-28T04:38:54Z")

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Backend. I believe it timesout trying to do a \* based pattern match.

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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, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-query-for-string-pattern-match/28058/4 "2017-07-06T14:14:06Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 2:14pm UTC