# Searching for APM services

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-apm-services/345599>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** ui\
**Created:** [October 23, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-apm-services/345599 "2023-10-23T20:54:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-apm-services/345599/1 "2023-10-23T20:54:38Z")

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Hello,

I was wondering why it seems so hard to search for specific services:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/5/9549e0ab02b2294bb4997712d2a7042692bf241f.png)

We have quite a bit of APM services. Full Text Search on the service name does not give any results in the above searchbar..

Or am I missing something?

Grtz

Willem

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-apm-services/345599/2 "2023-10-24T02:29:07Z")

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Hi @willemdh

`service.name` is a `keyword` type so no full text search is not supported.

You should be able to use wildcard like...

`service.name : *something*`

Do not do  
`service.name : "*something*"`

Just to be clear this is probably fine for finding service in the inventory or service map but using wildcard searches on keywords are not really efficient and are discouraged at scale.

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**Author:** ![sqren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sqren/32/26110_2.png) [@sqren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sqren)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-apm-services/345599/3 "2023-10-24T13:52:27Z")

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This looks related to this issue [[APM] Ability to search tables by specific field · Issue #127036 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/127036)

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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:** [November 21, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-apm-services/345599/4 "2023-11-21T13:52:55Z")

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