Search for a non empty field

[fernandoblalves (Fernando Alves)]

Hi,

For each event I collect on logstash, I add a field called "tags" that always exists, and contains an array that may be empty.
On kibana, I want to search for events that do not contain an empty array. I tried with

_exists_:tags

but the results do not seem correct. Can someone please tell me how to search for empty and for non empty fields, for null and non null fields, depending on the field type (e.g., string, array)? I searched the documentation but did not find a direct answer.

Thanks

[Bargs (Matt Bargar)]

How is your tags field mapped? Documents where tags = [] should not match that query.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-exists-query.html

[fernandoblalves (Fernando Alves)]

I must have had some errors somewhere, I checked and using on kibana _exists_:tags and !_exists_:tags provides the correct results, even though the tags field is never null.

Thanks