# Term query Kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-kibana/214592
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 10, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-kibana/214592 "2020-01-10T11:27:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@rvanegmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rvanegmond)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-kibana/214592/1 "2020-01-10T11:27:42Z")
I'm looking into a way to perform a term query straight from the search bar in Kibana. Found some stuff on this but last post is about a year old. I know I can then do this by editing the filter using the query DSL. When I use the defaults it is using a phrase query or a match but not a term query.
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### Author:  [@joshdover](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshdover)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-kibana/214592/2 "2020-01-10T23:15:58Z")
If you just input plain text you will get a match or phrase query.
However, you can leverage the KQL syntax to filter on specific terms. I'd recommend checking out the docs here on how to specify these queries: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/kuery-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/kuery-query.html)
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### Author:  [@rvanegmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rvanegmond)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2020, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-kibana/214592/3 "2020-01-15T08:26:06Z")
Please explain a little bit more. I have been reading these docs but what ever combination I try, when I inspect the request I see either a match or a phrase query.
So using the KQL I tried:
field:value - \> match
field:"value" -\> phrase
Using the filters saying "field is value" also results in a match phrase. The same accounts for clicking the value from the results.
I need the term query for filtering on text analysed by the pathhierarchy tokenizer.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-pathhierarchy-tokenizer-examples.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-pathhierarchy-tokenizer-examples.html)
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### Author:  [@joshdover](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshdover)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-kibana/214592/4 "2020-01-16T21:14:54Z")
I'm not reproducing that effect. Mine is a bool query (not terms, like I mentioned before). Make sure you have KQL turned on:
Here was my query:
```auto
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [],
"filter": [
{
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"range": {
"@timestamp": {
"gte": "now",
"lte": "now",
"time_zone": "xxxxx"
}
}
}
],
"minimum_should_match": 1
}
},
{
"range": {
"@timestamp": {
"format": "strict_date_optional_time",
"gte": "2019-12-17T21:13:03.265Z",
"lte": "2020-01-16T21:13:03.265Z"
}
}
}
],
"should": [],
"must_not": []
}
},
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/term-query-kibana/214592/5 "2020-02-13T21:15:02Z")
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