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[[discover-view-document]]
== View a document
Once you've found a document of interest in *Discover*, you have two more ways to
view it: in a view by itself or in context with surrounding documents.
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[[discover-view-single-document]]
=== View a single document
Access a single document so you can bookmark it and share the link.
. In the document table, click the expand icon (>).
. In the expanded view, click **View single document**.
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You can view the document in two ways. The **Table** view displays the document fields row-by-row.
The **JSON** (JavaScript Object Notation) view allows you to look at how {es} returns the document.
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[role="screenshot"]
image::images/discover-view-single-document.png[Discover single document view]
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The link is valid for the time the document is available in Elasticsearch. To create a customized view of the document,
you can create <<external-plugin-development, your own plugin>>.
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[[discover-view-surrounding-documents]]
=== View surrounding documents
To inspect the documents that occurred immediately before and after a document,
your index pattern must contain time-based events.
. In the document table, click the expand icon (>).
. In the expanded view, click **View surrounding documents**.
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Documents are displayed using the same set of columns as the *Discover* view from which
the context was opened. The anchor document is highlighted in blue.
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[role="screenshot"]
image::images/discover-context.png[Image showing context view feature, with anchor documents highlighted in blue]
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The filters you applied in *Discover* are carried over to the context view. Pinned
filters remain active, while normal filters are copied in a disabled state.
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image::images/discover-context-filters-inactive.png[Filter in context view]
. To find the documents of interest, add filters.
. To increase the number of documents that surround the anchor document, click *Load*.
By default, five documents are added with each click.
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[role="screenshot"]
image::images/discover-context-load-newer-documents.png[Load button and the number of documents to load, width=50%]
. To configure the number of documents to display and
the number of documents to load with each button click, go to *Stack Management > Advanced Settings*
and edit the <<kibana-discover-settings, context settings>>.