# Benchmarking Elasticsearch with Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 21, 2015, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/benchmarking-elasticsearch-with-kibana/27822 "2015-08-21T08:10:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![widhalm\_t](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/widhalm_t/32/4290_2.png) [@widhalm\_t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/widhalm_t)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/benchmarking-elasticsearch-with-kibana/27822/1 "2015-08-21T08:10:04Z")
Hi! I have a somewhat slow Elasticsearch 1.7.1 cluster with Kibana 4.1.1 around and I'm trying to do a bit of tuning. To check what effects my changes have I need some way measure the overall performance of the end user experience in terms of dashboard refresh speed. I'm thinking of using Kibanas share feature to create a dummy website that imports the dashboard as an iframe, but I'm not sure if this speed has anything to do with the Dashboards when viewed in Kibana. As a humble try I used curl to fetch the URL of a dashboard but all I get is a website reading that Kibana is booting up and being cached. Could you give me a hint on how to do the measuring? Cheers, Thomas ---
**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:** [August 22, 2015, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/benchmarking-elasticsearch-with-kibana/27822/2 "2015-08-22T08:42:25Z")
If KB appears slow then it'll be because ES isn't coping. This is what Marvel is for 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![widhalm\_t](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/widhalm_t/32/4290_2.png) [@widhalm\_t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/widhalm_t)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/benchmarking-elasticsearch-with-kibana/27822/3 "2015-08-25T09:14:51Z")
I thought so, that ES might have some impact on the KB performace. 😜 I just wanted to measure overall performance and take a possible slow connection between KB and ES, problems on the KB host, etc. into account. I used the Firefox developer tools to measure the response times and this gave me some valuable hints. Thanks anyway. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/benchmarking-elasticsearch-with-kibana/27822/4 "2017-07-05T23:54:00Z")