# Any way to use DEV tools page to query Kibana API?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-dev-tools-page-to-query-kibana-api/241352>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-dev-tools-page-to-query-kibana-api/241352 "2020-07-15T18:30:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![kelk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kelk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kelk)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-dev-tools-page-to-query-kibana-api/241352/1 "2020-07-15T18:30:18Z")

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The dev tools page in Kibana (`<uri>/app/kibana#/dev_tools/console`) seems to connect to elasticsearch API only (eg I can query elasticsearch data, searches etc)

But the Kibana API's (like siem rules api, [saved\_objects](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api-find.html), dashboard import/export) all requires the kibana endpoint API (ie. at 5601)

Any ideas how to re-purpose the DEV tools page to do this? (or should we do using external curl or postman kinda?)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-dev-tools-page-to-query-kibana-api/241352/2 "2020-07-15T22:41:19Z")

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It is geared towards Elasticsearch interactions, yes.

This is a good idea though, I would encourage you to raise a feature request on GitHub for this 🙂

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**Author:** ![kelk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kelk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kelk)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-dev-tools-page-to-query-kibana-api/241352/3 "2020-07-16T04:50:39Z")

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@warkolm  
Will do and raise as a feature request

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**Author:** ![kelk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kelk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kelk)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-dev-tools-page-to-query-kibana-api/241352/4 "2020-07-17T18:23:30Z")

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Raised feature request and is now tracked.

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/49330>
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> Currently, users are unable to use Console with any of Kibana's REST APIs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api.html. There are an ever growing number of...

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-dev-tools-page-to-query-kibana-api/241352/5 "2020-08-14T18:23:33Z")

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