# Variable filter in a ES dashboard

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-filter-in-a-es-dashboard/90026>\
**Category:** Configuration\
**Created:** [June 21, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-filter-in-a-es-dashboard/90026 "2023-06-21T11:24:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![eb1932261545](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@eb1932261545](https://community.grafana.com/u/eb1932261545)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-filter-in-a-es-dashboard/90026/1 "2023-06-21T11:24:41Z")

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- What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?  
OSS V10.0 linux
- **What** are you trying to achieve?  
Add a variable filter on my dashboard, where ES is the datasource I’m using
- **How** are you trying to achieve it?  
Add a variable filter on my dashboard
- What happened?  
Not sure how to do
- What did you **expect** to happen?  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/e/5/e54fb122000b3c9fb7ccaf06ad298182eb379849.png)  
Something like this
- Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/8/0/8099ff5b5fd9a329a613a64f5ef0fb8e09a55d3b.png)  
there is no configuration here yet
- Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us **exactly** what they were.  
No
- Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?  
No