# Making filters OR or AND in a visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-filters-or-or-and-in-a-visualization/41583>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 12, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-filters-or-or-and-in-a-visualization/41583 "2016-02-12T08:57:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![isaacpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@isaacpm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/isaacpm)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-filters-or-or-and-in-a-visualization/41583/1 "2016-02-12T08:57:46Z")

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Hi,

it seems that in a visualization when you create more than one filter there is an OR working between them.  
I've got three filters I want to apply and this seems to be the behavior:  
filter1 OR filter2 OR filter3

I want to achieve the following:  
filter1 AND (filter2 OR filter3)

What would be the best way to do this in Kibana 4.4?

Thanks,  
Isaac

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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:** [February 12, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-filters-or-or-and-in-a-visualization/41583/2 "2016-02-12T15:17:00Z")

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The default predicate between filters is AND. You can do more complex logic in an editable filter: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/5109#issuecomment-151600967](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/5109#issuecomment-151600967)

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**Author:** ![isaacpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@isaacpm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/isaacpm)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/making-filters-or-or-and-in-a-visualization/41583/3 "2016-02-12T15:18:30Z")

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Thanks, will check and do it directly with the json editor 🙂

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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/making-filters-or-or-and-in-a-visualization/41583/4 "2017-07-06T14:02:19Z")

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