# Call Kibana with data

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-kibana-with-data/248841
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 16, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-kibana-with-data/248841 "2020-09-16T13:59:37Z")
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### Author: ![sonnenteich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@sonnenteich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sonnenteich)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-kibana-with-data/248841/1 "2020-09-16T13:59:38Z")

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Hello,  
I am pretty new to elastic, so maybe this is a dummy question.  
I query my elastic with an external app and I want to show the one selected result or all queried results in Kibana. Is there away to call Kibana with a) a document id so I can view the document and b) an elastic query so Kibana shows the query results in discover?

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### Author: ![majagrubic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/majagrubic/32/74459_2.png) [@majagrubic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/majagrubic)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-kibana-with-data/248841/2 "2020-09-16T14:30:00Z")

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Hi, you can query Discover for id by specifying: `_id: <your_id>`. For other queries, Kibana supports [Kibana Query Language](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/kuery-query.html) and [Lucene query syntax](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/lucene-query.html). KQL is a bit simpler to use.

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### Author: ![sonnenteich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@sonnenteich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sonnenteich)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-kibana-with-data/248841/3 "2020-09-21T14:51:04Z")

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Hey, thanks for your answer. The point is I have a query witch was generated by the elasticsearch-dls library in python, so I don't want to parse the query.

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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: [October 19, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-kibana-with-data/248841/4 "2020-10-19T14:51:07Z")

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