# Remove Arguments from URI in kibana visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-arguments-from-uri-in-kibana-visualization/312053>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 13, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-arguments-from-uri-in-kibana-visualization/312053 "2022-08-13T12:37:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vaibhav\_Mathur1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vaibhav_mathur1/32/109607_2.png) [@Vaibhav\_Mathur1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vaibhav_Mathur1)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-arguments-from-uri-in-kibana-visualization/312053/1 "2022-08-13T12:37:09Z")

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I am creating a visualisation with counting total urls hits  
I am able to get all urls and counts  
but i am getting url with arguments as below  
ur1?a=1. =\> count 100  
url1?b=2 =\> count 100  
what i want is url1 =\> count 200  
i.e URL without arguments

```auto
{
  "aggs": {
    "2": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "uri.keyword",
        "order": {
          "_count": "desc"
        },
        "size": 1000000,
        "exclude": "*?*"
      }
    }
  },
  "size": 0,
  "stored_fields": [
    "*"
  ],
  "script_fields": {},
  "docvalue_fields": [
    {
      "field": "@timestamp",
      "format": "date_time"
    },
    {
      "field": "serverTimestamp",
      "format": "date_time"
    },
    {
      "field": "timestamp",
      "format": "date_time"
    }
  ],
  "_source": {
    "excludes": []
  },
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "query_string": {
            "query": "(verticalName: info)",
            "analyze_wildcard": true,
            "time_zone": "Asia/Calcutta"
          }
        }
      ],
      "filter": [
        {
          "range": {
            "timestamp": {
              "gte": "2022-08-12T12:28:13.493Z",
              "lte": "2022-08-13T12:28:13.493Z",
              "format": "strict_date_optional_time"
            }
          }
        }
      ],
      "should": [],
      "must_not": []
    }
  }
}

```

How i can use exclude option to do this

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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 10, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-arguments-from-uri-in-kibana-visualization/312053/2 "2022-09-10T12:37:37Z")

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