Text Box Variable and Wildcard

Does anyone know if there is a bug with using * as a wildcard in a Text box variable? When I use * as a wildcard in my text box variable it returns No Data. If I use * instead of the variable in my query I get results. Looking at the query inspector I see the queries are much different:

Query with * in the query, no variable:

AND * AND * AND * AND *"}}]}},

Query with * in the default value, text box variable used:

AND * AND * AND * AND \\*"}}]}},

what datasource is this query running against

Elasticsearch

Please post the full query with the variable being used

kubernetes.namespace_name.keyword: ${customer} AND ${pwiseLogAppender} AND ${custom} AND ${logtype} AND ${thread}

Query inspector:

"data": "{\"search_type\":\"query_then_fetch\",\"ignore_unavailable\":true,\"index\":[\"dev2-cust-*-logs-2023.08.11\"]}\n{\"size\":2000,\"query\":{\"bool\":{\"filter\":[{\"range\":{\"@timestamp\":{\"gte\":1691746543247,\"lte\":1691768143247,\"format\":\"epoch_millis\"}}},{\"query_string\":{\"analyze_wildcard\":true,\"query\":\"kubernetes.namespace_name.keyword: pw\\\\-mn\\\\-bmap\\\\-05\\\\-1001389117 AND * AND * AND * AND \\\\*\"}}]}},\"sort\":[{\"@timestamp\":{\"order\":\"desc\",\"unmapped_type\":\"boolean\"}},{\"_doc\":{\"order\":\"desc\"}}],\"script_fields\":{},\"aggs\":{\"1\":{\"date_histogram\":{\"field\":\"@timestamp\",\"min_doc_count\":0,\"extended_bounds\":{\"min\":1691746543247,\"max\":1691768143247},\"format\":\"epoch_millis\",\"fixed_interval\":\"15000ms\"},\"aggs\":{}}},\"highlight\":{\"fields\":{\"*\":{}},\"pre_tags\":[\"@HIGHLIGHT@\"],\"post_tags\":[\"@/HIGHLIGHT@\"],\"fragment_size\":2147483647}}\n",

Hi @marty22877
I am facing the same issue, were you able to fix it?
In Grafana v8.4.3, I used ‘.’ in one of the text box variable, and it worked as expected, allowing me to see the data. However, after migrating to v10.4.2, the same '.’ variable is not working.
do have any insights or suggestions on how to resolve it?