# Kibana - Report anomaly due to data delimiters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-report-anomaly-due-to-data-delimiters/21583>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 12, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-report-anomaly-due-to-data-delimiters/21583 "2015-01-12T13:01:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rinugoldjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@rinugoldjin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rinugoldjin)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-report-anomaly-due-to-data-delimiters/21583/1 "2015-01-12T13:01:45Z")

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Which are all the delimiters that will be considered by the kibana. We have noticed the whitespace, colon, semi-colon are considered delimiter by kibana. It would treat the data before and after the delimiter as a different chunks rather than a single string even after giving in the quotes. For an instance we have a pattern “I am working” and “I:am:working”. If we try to view as bar graph/pie chart/table, it would be considered as different string even after providing in quotes.

Any help around this will be helpful.

Regards  
Rinu

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**Author:** ![oreno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b4bc9f/32.png) [@oreno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/oreno)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-report-anomaly-due-to-data-delimiters/21583/2 "2015-01-12T16:02:18Z")

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Set the field as not analyzed. That should keep the field value as is while searching.

"pageViews": {  
"type": "string",  
"index": "not\_analyzed"  
}

Thanks,  
Oren

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**Author:** ![rinugoldjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@rinugoldjin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rinugoldjin)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-report-anomaly-due-to-data-delimiters/21583/3 "2015-01-13T14:25:17Z")

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Thanks Oren

That was really helpful, now I am able to retain the data as is while I plot the charts.

Regards  
Rinu

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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, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-report-anomaly-due-to-data-delimiters/21583/4 "2017-07-06T00:39:22Z")

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