# Kibana search case sensitive

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-case-sensitive/280536>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 5, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-case-sensitive/280536 "2021-08-05T13:18:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![PraveenKT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/praveenkt/32/35483_2.png) [@PraveenKT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PraveenKT)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-case-sensitive/280536/1 "2021-08-05T13:18:12Z")

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Few hostnames are in capital and few other are small. How do I do a case insensitive search in kibana?

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**Author:** ![cheiligers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cheiligers/32/73114_2.png) [@cheiligers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheiligers)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-case-sensitive/280536/2 "2021-08-10T20:39:56Z")

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Hi @PraveenKT There's an older discussion around case-sensitivity searches [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-case-insensitive-search-for-a-field-value/120002/8)  
In short, you would need to map the `hostname` field to text.

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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:** [September 7, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-case-sensitive/280536/3 "2021-09-07T20:40:15Z")

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