# Why kibana use match
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-use-match/96001
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 6, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-use-match/96001 "2017-08-06T03:37:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ytzlax](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ytzlax)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-use-match/96001/1 "2017-08-06T03:37:18Z")
Why kibana use match instead term when filter visualisation?
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### Author:  [@Stacey\_Gammon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stacey_Gammon)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-use-match/96001/2 "2017-08-07T15:42:33Z")
I believe a term query and a match query should behave the same when applied to a keyword field, which is the type of fields visualizations are built on.
fwiw, you can change the filter query if you wish to use term instead of match:
Is there a specific reason you would like to see term used by default instead?
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### Author:  [@ytzlax](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ytzlax)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-use-match/96001/3 "2017-08-09T13:29:03Z")
No, despite the fact that you don't need to append keyword in text field. Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-use-match/96001/4 "2017-09-06T13:29:06Z")
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