# Kibana - Alerts - Searching monitors with a dash or hyphen doesn't fetch monitors

**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-alerts-searching-monitors-with-a-dash-or-hyphen-doesnt-fetch-monitors/6768
**Category:** Alerting
**Created:** [August 11, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-alerts-searching-monitors-with-a-dash-or-hyphen-doesnt-fetch-monitors/6768 "2021-08-11T15:53:00Z")
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### Author: ![psripathi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@psripathi](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/psripathi)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-alerts-searching-monitors-with-a-dash-or-hyphen-doesnt-fetch-monitors/6768/1 "2021-08-11T15:53:00Z")

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Hello,

We’ve a good number of monitors defined through Kibana OpenDistro Alerting.  
The issue that I am facing is with search/filtering monitors that have a dash or hyphen. Please note that they work just fine in terms of alerting and notifying.

I am unable to search with a keyword that has **‘-’** in it.  
Here’s a test monitor I’ve created - `"test-monitor_with-dashes"`

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/mauve_hedgehog/original/2X/1/1b8f647bd1c9f9f9d0c0b79cd1a924e4bec21cfe.png)

Is this a known issue?  
Since it allows us to create monitors with these characters, shouldn’t search/filter work accordingly?

Appreciate any help towards this.

Best  
Prashanth Sripathi

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### Author: ![AxelMonroyX](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/axelmonroyx/32/393_2.png) [@AxelMonroyX](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/AxelMonroyX)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/kibana-alerts-searching-monitors-with-a-dash-or-hyphen-doesnt-fetch-monitors/6768/2 "2021-08-17T19:34:08Z")

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I think is an API convention non official or at least not listed on the documentation but as we can see in the documentation all names follow this format

```auto
 "name": "my-name-non-official-format-but-most-people-do"

```

> **[API](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/alerting/api/#create-monitor)**
>
> Documentation for Open Distro, the community-driven, 100% open source distribution of Elasticsearch OSS with advanced security, alerting, deep performance analysis, and more.