# Query filter not working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-filter-not-working/99771
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 7, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-filter-not-working/99771 "2017-09-07T21:32:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sunmesiav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunmesiav)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-filter-not-working/99771/1 "2017-09-07T21:32:42Z")
Hi Team,
Iam trying to build a simple query and filter but its not working.
> {
> "query": {
> "bool": {
> "must": [
> { "match": { "some\_entry": "Not in" }}
> ],
> "filter": [
> { "term": { "some\_area": "XXX\_YY" }}
> ]
> }
> }
> }
Iam getting 0 hits while my index as many records. Iam trying to search a text in the field some\_entry and if it matches I wanted to filter by some\_area with exact value as XXX\_YY, If I remove the filter Iam getting those records Iam getting the value, wanted to know what Iam doing wrong
Without filter
> {
> "took": 1,
> "timed\_out": false,
> "\_shards": {
> "total": 5,
> "successful": 5,
> "failed": 0
> },
> "hits": {
> "total": 434,
> "max\_score": 5.82006,
> "hits": [
> {
> "\_index": "logs2",
> "\_type": "log2",
> "\_id": "000001635084962",
> "\_score": 5.82006,
> "\_source": {
> "some\_area": "XXX\_YY",
> "logtypetext": "Internal",
> "@timestamp": "2017-09-07T20:37:22.905Z",
> "some\_entry": " Circuit down - Circuit ID not found in the Database",
> "@version": "1",
> "request\_id": "000001635084962"
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "logs2",
> "\_type": "log2",
> "\_id": "000001010700627",
> "\_score": 5.82006,
> "\_source": {
> "some\_area": "XXX\_YY",
> "logtypetext": "Internal",
> "some\_entry\_short": " =================================================",
> "@timestamp": "2017-09-07T20:37:36.447Z",
> "some\_entry": " =====================================================================================\nThe customer is not in the list.\n=====================================================================================\n",
> "@version": "1",
> "request\_id": "000001010700627"
> }
> },
> ...
> }
> }
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### Author:  [@sunmesiav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunmesiav)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-filter-not-working/99771/2 "2017-09-07T22:54:36Z")
it looks like the term is case sensitive and with lower case Iam getting the results back. Thanks
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-filter-not-working/99771/3 "2017-09-08T01:00:01Z")
Term queries do not analyze the query term, whereas match queries will. Use
term queries only for exact matches.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-filter-not-working/99771/4 "2017-10-06T01:00:48Z")
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