# Searching data from multiple types in kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-data-from-multiple-types-in-kibana/59435
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 31, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-data-from-multiple-types-in-kibana/59435 "2016-08-31T14:30:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@balubollam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balubollam)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-data-from-multiple-types-in-kibana/59435/1 "2016-08-31T14:30:36Z")
Hi,
Can we search data from the multiple types in kibana...
in elastic-search when i search data from the mutiple types we are getting by
GET /indexname/type1,type2/\_search
in the same way when i use in kibana
discovery tab
\_type:type1 AND \_type:type2
unable to get the data
in dashboard tab how can i graphs where my one field is in type1 and another field is in type2
we also have a common field 'timestamp' in all the types of the indices
So is there any way.....?......Please help me out............
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### Author:  [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-data-from-multiple-types-in-kibana/59435/2 "2016-08-31T19:45:29Z")
On the discover tab you'll want to OR between your two types, documents won't belong to both. It won't be possible to have separate graphs in the same index with different types in a dashboard unless there's a search or filter toggled or if type1 and type2 are in different indices.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-data-from-multiple-types-in-kibana/59435/3 "2017-07-06T13:39:45Z")