[Filters] Support for wildcard query

[rashmivkulkarni]

Kibana version: master

Elasticsearch version: master

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.): source

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior: The user in the discuss form pasted below is trying to do a partial matching using kibana filters. Currently there is no way to do a wildcard query or have a contain field in the Add filter dialog box. This is not possible in the editor UI at the moment. Hence this enhancement request for the same :

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibanas-filter-partial-matching/98494/8

[a1exus]

@Rasroh thank you for creating issue)

[pranav0091]

I'm no ES expert, so this is just an opinion/view on UX implementation details

Since ElasticSearch uses prefix-based inverted-index for strings, I suppose letting the user apply a query that supports * is better than just using "contains"? With the former there is a possibility of a cheaper search - thisText* as opposed to contains which has to mean *thisText*, right?

[Bargs]

Community PR for this issue #16357

Needs review from Kibana team

[aholmes]

Can we get some traction on this and PR #16357? Almost two years now.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app-arch (Team:AppArch)

[chetan-hr]

Hello Kibana team, can i search for a pattern ending with or exact match? I have a parameter name 'request' which contains request url and I am interested to search for a exact match to be able to confirm if I can deprecate it based on the usage, but the search results give a huge list in which my pattern word is in between, which is not useful. As I am interested in exact match.

[barakharyati]

please add regex search to filter

[ppisljar]

Thank you for contributing to this issue, however, we are closing this issue due to inactivity as part of a backlog grooming effort. If you believe this feature/bug should still be considered, please reopen with a comment.

[FixedVariables]

Reopening this, as suggested above, with a comment. I've got a use case I'd be interested in, to regex with a startswith for a field. Thank you!