# Kibana search query to remove ip range

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-query-to-remove-ip-range/41825>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 15, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-query-to-remove-ip-range/41825 "2016-02-15T22:47:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jystol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@jystol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jystol)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-query-to-remove-ip-range/41825/1 "2016-02-15T22:47:30Z")

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I would like to exclude an ip range in my kibana visualization via a search similar to "NOT dst\_ip:10.0.0.0/8 ". the field is of type ip. Any help would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-query-to-remove-ip-range/41825/2 "2016-02-16T07:16:41Z")

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Surprisingly I can't find any documentation of this, but I think

```
NOT dst_ip:[10.0.0.0 TO 10.255.255.255]

```

works.

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**Author:** ![jystol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@jystol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jystol)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-query-to-remove-ip-range/41825/3 "2016-02-16T14:33:49Z")

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Thanks @magnusbaeck, I also have also tried the following and it seems to work as well.

NOT dst\_ip:10.0.0.0/8 OR NOT dst\_ip:192.168.0.0/16

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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, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-query-to-remove-ip-range/41825/4 "2017-07-06T14:02:09Z")

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