# Calling web api

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-web-api/160988>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 15, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-web-api/160988 "2018-12-15T04:34:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![ganeshmaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@ganeshmaa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ganeshmaa)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-web-api/160988/1 "2018-12-15T04:34:17Z")

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Hello Team,

we have scenario like below

We need to send the selected data to API to do custom calculation & Show the output in live in dashboard..

in the plugin shall we do custom API call for data manipulation?  
Please suggest it..

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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:** [January 12, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calling-web-api/160988/2 "2019-01-12T04:47:46Z")

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