# Kibana search fails to find string

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-fails-to-find-string/346163>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 31, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-fails-to-find-string/346163 "2023-10-31T22:08:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ChazJaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@ChazJaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChazJaz)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-fails-to-find-string/346163/1 "2023-10-31T22:08:58Z")

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When I try a simple KQL search for the character pattern:

```
message: "}]}}}"

```

it finds no results even though I can see that string pattern in some entries of an unfiltered query of my data stream. According to the KQL documentation, the characters above do not require escaping. Nevertheless, I tried escaping each of the two unique characters, in turn, then tried escaping all of them. I still got no results back from each of these queries.

Is there some restriction on which characters can be used in a query?

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**Author:** ![azizim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/azizim/32/127005_2.png) [@azizim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/azizim)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-fails-to-find-string/346163/2 "2023-10-31T23:39:52Z")

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What is the mapping of the meassage field?

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**Author:** ![ChazJaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@ChazJaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChazJaz)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-fails-to-find-string/346163/3 "2023-11-01T14:02:51Z")

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The message field is just plain 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:** [November 29, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-fails-to-find-string/346163/4 "2023-11-29T14:03:50Z")

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