# Basic connection to REST API
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-connection-to-rest-api/92129
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 6, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-connection-to-rest-api/92129 "2017-07-06T15:44:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Eveline\_Vlassenroot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eveline_Vlassenroot)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-connection-to-rest-api/92129/1 "2017-07-06T15:44:05Z")
Hi,
I want to make a basic connection with a REST API with Elasticsearch to do some query's on it.
Because the database is so big, I want to get a first insight in it.
Is there an easy way I can set this up with Elasticsearch? I already installed it.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-connection-to-rest-api/92129/2 "2017-07-06T16:01:49Z")
You can use logstash jdbc input to read data from a SQL db then index into elasticsearch.
Might help in some cases and for building POC.
Have a look at [http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2015/05/09/advanced-search-for-your-legacy-application/](http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2015/05/09/advanced-search-for-your-legacy-application/) where I'm talking about that and other strategies to send data to elasticsearch.
HTH
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-connection-to-rest-api/92129/3 "2017-08-03T16:01:58Z")
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