# Use wildcards to search in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-wildcards-to-search-in-kibana/161109>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 17, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-wildcards-to-search-in-kibana/161109 "2018-12-17T09:59:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![monfera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monfera/32/26467_2.png) [@monfera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monfera)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-wildcards-to-search-in-kibana/161109/2 "2018-12-17T10:20:34Z")

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Hello @M.alsioufi - your suspicion is right, it's more of an Elasticsearch question. In any case please check out [this discussion](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escaping-special-characters-in-wildcard-query/5819) as it might help with your problem.

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