# Retrieve multiple documents in elasticsearch filter

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-multiple-documents-in-elasticsearch-filter/192751
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-multiple-documents-in-elasticsearch-filter/192751 "2019-07-29T17:19:09Z")
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### Author: ![jdcohen220](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@jdcohen220](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jdcohen220)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-multiple-documents-in-elasticsearch-filter/192751/3 "2019-07-29T19:31:50Z")

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This worked. Looks like we needed to specify which fields we needed: [How to query elasticsearch and take some fields from old data](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-elasticsearch-and-take-some-fields-from-old-data/75300/3)

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