# Accessing images into elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [October 27, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-images-into-elasticsearch/287844 "2021-10-27T17:56:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-images-into-elasticsearch/287844/2 "2021-10-27T22:25:51Z")
Hi @Salman_Ali Welcome to the community. You _can_ store images in Elasticsearch but the typical use case is to have Elasticsearch to store the metadata about the image with a URL / Link to the data (say in S3 or on your hard drive ) and build the search around Elasticsearch and display around your custom app or I think with Discover you can make the link active... so you could click on it. Kibana is not really built to display images stored in Elasticsearch there were some old Kibana Plugins at one point but I think they are all our of date. Here was a recent discussion... > [@Kibana show Images](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-show-images/268349): > > I have a doubt . I have a table x that contains a column called images (type jsonb) in my postgresql database. I migrated this data to elasticsearch, however, only the image metadata appears, I would like to know if it is possible to display the image in Kibana? [Pasteboard - Uploaded Image](https://pasteboard.co/JUflJEu.png) ( metadata images) Thank You Perhaps someone else will have a suggestion... --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/accessing-images-into-elasticsearch/287844)._