# Searching message that contains "--------------"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-message-that-contains/206132>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 1, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-message-that-contains/206132 "2019-11-01T09:05:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jacob\_Larsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jacob_larsson/32/50103_2.png) [@Jacob\_Larsson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jacob_Larsson)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-message-that-contains/206132/1 "2019-11-01T09:05:29Z")

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Hi,

We have managed to get Kibana running with beats and elasticsearch at my work which means that we can do more root cause analysis reading logs from an IIS instance.

However I do not manage get the search for messages / querystring that contain "--------------".  
How do I do that?

The querystring looks like this:

{"ClickedButton":"","IsMenu":"False","SessionGuid":"68ca2fdd-9872-4724-a7eb-3fc5a21b18f2","Unit1":"XX","Unit2":"--------------","Unit3":"YY","Unit4":"--------------","empty":"false"}

Can someone please send me an answer?

Br  
Jacob Larsson

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-message-that-contains/206132/2 "2019-11-01T14:13:45Z")

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Can you provide some more information.

What does the mapping for your index look like?

What does a sample document look like?

Where are you using the provided query string?

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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 29, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-message-that-contains/206132/3 "2019-11-29T14:13:48Z")

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