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[[tutorial-discovering]]
== Discovering Your Data
Using the Discover application, you can enter
an {ref}/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#query-string-syntax[Elasticsearch
query] to search your data and filter the results.
. Open *Discover*. The `shakes*` pattern is the current index pattern.
. Click the caret to the right of `shakes*`, and select `ba*`.
. In the search field, enter the following string:
+
[source,text]
account_number:<100 AND balance:>47500
The search returns all account numbers between zero and 99 with balances in
excess of 47,500. It returns results for account numbers 8, 32, 78, 85, and 97.
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image::images/tutorial-discover-2.png[]
By default, all fields are shown for each matching document. To choose which
fields to display, hover the mouse over the the list of *Available Fields*
and then click *add* next to each field you want include.
For example, if you add the `account_number` field, the display changes to a list of five
account numbers.
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image::images/tutorial-discover-3.png[]