# Visualization Exclude Pattern

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-exclude-pattern/35257
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 23, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-exclude-pattern/35257 "2015-11-23T01:52:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![gromit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac8455/32.png) [@gromit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gromit)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-exclude-pattern/35257/1 "2015-11-23T01:52:02Z")

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I'm looking to exclude on a field value, in this case an email address.  
Exact matches work fine, but I'm looking to exclude an email beginning with a certain keyword.  
For example, [exchanger523418115@example.com](mailto:exchanger523418115@example.com). So in this case the keyword would be 'exchanger'  
I've tried the following:  
^exchanger  
/bexchanger/B  
^exchanger\w\*

But no luck. Any ideas?

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### Author: ![jay224](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@jay224](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jay224)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-exclude-pattern/35257/2 "2016-01-13T18:26:26Z")

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Greetings! I am also trying to exclude pattern that starts with string "/something/\*\*\*\*\*". Have you found solution.

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### Author: ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-exclude-pattern/35257/3 "2016-01-13T18:42:43Z")

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You should be able to use a combination of `-` and `*` as follows: `-email:exchanger*`

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### Author: ![trekr5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@trekr5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/trekr5)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-exclude-pattern/35257/4 "2016-06-06T15:10:38Z")

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Hi,

I have a situation where my query returns:

GET /fundraising/alice  
GET /fundraising/benny

I would like the response to be

GET /alice  
GET /benny

I tried in my exclude pattern:

|._/\fundraising/._

If I use ._/fundraising\/._| it will completely exclude all pages leading with fundraising which isn't what I want.

How can I achieve this?

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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: [July 6, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-exclude-pattern/35257/5 "2017-07-06T13:51:28Z")

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