# \#search

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/tag/search/129.md

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## [Dropdown suggestions not showing up for Filters in Kibana Dashboard](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-suggestions-not-showing-up-for-filters-in-kibana-dashboard/383811)

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**Author:** [@Lakshay\_Choube](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lakshay_Choube)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 17, 2026, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropdown-suggestions-not-showing-up-for-filters-in-kibana-dashboard/383811 "2026-07-17T09:41:49Z")

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How can we have auto-suggestions and options to show in filters for say Program Names - with account\_id restriction on the documents the user can see. Basically my account has all granted fields access but when an accou…

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## [ES|QL date histogram?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-ql-date-histogram/383029)

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**Author:** [@kmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kmp)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-ql-date-histogram/383029 "2025-10-28T15:32:44Z")

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I’m really trying to start to use ES|QL… About six months ago, I generated some queries (saved search sessions) and was wondering why (unlike the Classic search) there was no date histogram displayed. I was playing aro…

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## [Can't do page turn in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-do-page-turn-in-kibana/375209)

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**Author:** [@arT1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arT1)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-do-page-turn-in-kibana/375209 "2025-03-03T01:12:52Z")

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Elastic Stack v8.13.3 Kibana v8.13.3 I have seventy-five services but I can't do page turn in APM, which makes me very upset When I click on the next page, the second page or the third page, I did not turn the page co…

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## [Can I able to ignore Duplicate match it is effecting on entire relevance score](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-able-to-ignore-duplicate-match-it-is-effecting-on-entire-relevance-score/369088)

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**Author:** [@Anand\_Konagala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anand_Konagala)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 19, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-able-to-ignore-duplicate-match-it-is-effecting-on-entire-relevance-score/369088 "2024-10-19T05:00:42Z")

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Hello, When I perform a querying on Elasticsearch the duplicate matches also take score by Inverse Document Frequency and come top of the results. Can I ignore the duplicate matching. top document, "highlight": { …

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## [Search bar persistent? (or to pin search phrase as a filter to persist?)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-bar-persistent-or-to-pin-search-phrase-as-a-filter-to-persist/368738)

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**Author:** [@bob454522](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bob454522)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 13, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-bar-persistent-or-to-pin-search-phrase-as-a-filter-to-persist/368738 "2024-10-13T18:46:10Z")

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on Kibana (v8.15.2, but prior i was on 8.8.2) - how do you get a search phrase (ie typed into the search bar) to persist across pages? (ie either across different dashboards, or even across different pages of the same d…

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## [Best way to deal with empty fields?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-deal-with-empty-fields/364806)

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**Author:** [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 14, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-way-to-deal-with-empty-fields/364806 "2024-08-14T22:07:42Z")

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Hello, I have a field that seems to come in as "--" so I removed it. The due to removing it, the field now its "(empty)". The issue I want to filter out these fields but both appear: I even did "exists" and they bo…

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## [One search in discover being used for different visualisation](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-search-in-discover-being-used-for-different-visualisation/351543)

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**Author:** [@skshandilya69](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skshandilya69)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 22, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-search-in-discover-being-used-for-different-visualisation/351543 "2024-01-22T17:47:10Z")

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I have many nodes, and each node sends an event that happens repeatedly every 12 hours. all nodes do not send this at the same time. I need one saved search which is very generic, I want to visualise this through variou…

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## [Change Log format](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-log-format/344476)

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**Author:** [@Suleman\_Ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suleman_Ahmed)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 6, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-log-format/344476 "2023-10-06T12:35:17Z")

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Hello! I want to change format of below mentioned log. I am new to Elk any help will be much appreciated. Thanks \[Mon Oct 02 13:14:00.967345 2023\] \[security2:error\] \[pid 186:tid 140439170467520\] \[client 192.168.76.181:…

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## [Tutorial elastic search full text query search engine](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-elastic-search-full-text-query-search-engine/343929)

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**Author:** [@cmansilla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cmansilla)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 27, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tutorial-elastic-search-full-text-query-search-engine/343929 "2023-09-27T05:36:23Z")

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Hi im looking for tutorial about build a search engine (proof of concept in windows or centos) with Elasticsearch, any idea where i can start?, we have about 500k files (html, word and pdf files) for start, we was search…

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## [Key value searching](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/key-value-searching/342279)

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**Author:** [@Katya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Katya)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 5, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/key-value-searching/342279 "2023-09-05T06:12:18Z")

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Hello everyone. I'm trying to find logs in Kibana which contain the key and value in the table's key, but don't know which syntax is correct for this search. Example: The table contains the key "body". "body" is a JS…

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## [Multiword exact search](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiword-exact-search/334490)

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**Author:** [@Matej\_Senozetnik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matej_Senozetnik)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 28, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiword-exact-search/334490 "2023-05-28T00:27:07Z")

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Hello, I would kindly ask how to make multi words search with multi keywords. I would like to achive following for SATB2 syndrome would like that I found exact following words: Prader-Willi syndrome (all varation of lo…

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## [Search template Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-template-kibana/331053)

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**Author:** [@Farah\_Bhr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Farah_Bhr)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 30, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-template-kibana/331053 "2023-04-30T23:02:07Z")

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Is there a way to use search template within kibana page like in discover ? I know we can use elasticsearch search template in devTools , but the output of the result is in json which not very visual I want to display…

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## [Search in Kibana with big amount of data](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-in-kibana-with-big-amount-of-data/328324)

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**Author:** [@vladislav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vladislav)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-in-kibana-with-big-amount-of-data/328324 "2023-03-23T20:55:05Z")

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Hello! Thanks for help in advance. I have a pretty big index about 80+ Gib of data containing multiple fields, such as ip addresses, time, requests, etc. And I need to make a search of around 1000 unique addresses in t…

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## [Find a pattern within field's value using regular expression Kibana UI](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-a-pattern-within-fields-value-using-regular-expression-kibana-ui/324885)

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**Author:** [@aklimo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aklimo)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 7, 2023, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-a-pattern-within-fields-value-using-regular-expression-kibana-ui/324885 "2023-02-07T10:28:19Z")

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Hello, I am trying to find a pattern within the field using regular expression and it's not working the way I think it should. The field is message.ApiData.ResponseBody and it contains a JSON response. It is a collecti…
