# Wildcards in Field Names (e.g \*.ip, \*.hostname)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-in-field-names-e-g-ip-hostname/188077>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 28, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-in-field-names-e-g-ip-hostname/188077 "2019-06-28T15:25:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![olatunde.tokun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/olatunde.tokun/32/110546_2.png) [@olatunde.tokun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/olatunde.tokun)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-in-field-names-e-g-ip-hostname/188077/1 "2019-06-28T15:25:20Z")

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In a webinar - Elastic Common Schema for Cyber Threat Hunting, I see @mikepaq using wildcards in fields within Kibana.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/2/d2320b7999082e40397228b5543e24263fe5dc6a.jpeg)

When I try this within my setup (6.2), I get shard errors, with no results found.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/8/a8b13eb21793a9438b3fc9e2f3cdba0c35ed42cb.png)

Thanks for your feedback.

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**Author:** ![Mike\_Paquette](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mike_paquette/32/119011_2.png) [@Mike\_Paquette](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike_Paquette)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-in-field-names-e-g-ip-hostname/188077/2 "2019-06-28T16:15:49Z")

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Hi Olatunde, this wildcard search was performed with query features that were changed after 6.2, and was operating on ECS-formatted data from 7.x that includes several fields that end with `.ip`

Please see [https://www.elastic.co/blog/improving-kibanas-query-language](https://www.elastic.co/blog/improving-kibanas-query-language) for some additional context.

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**Author:** ![olatunde.tokun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/olatunde.tokun/32/110546_2.png) [@olatunde.tokun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/olatunde.tokun)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-in-field-names-e-g-ip-hostname/188077/3 "2019-06-28T17:33:17Z")

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Thank you.

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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 26, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcards-in-field-names-e-g-ip-hostname/188077/4 "2019-07-26T17:33:27Z")

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