# Can i use Kibana to show historical data? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [March 14, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-kibana-to-show-historical-data/123892 "2018-03-14T11:38:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![efeyabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@efeyabel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/efeyabel)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-kibana-to-show-historical-data/123892/1 "2018-03-14T11:38:47Z")
Can i use Kibana to show historical data? And use ElasticSearch to storage the data I want to reach storage a large amount of data in ElasticSearch and display him on kibana. Can i? And if i undertant correctly kibana ONLY can display data from Elasticsearch, i cant display data from MongoDb or similar ---
**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-kibana-to-show-historical-data/123892/2 "2018-03-14T21:09:29Z")
Hi, As long as you can ingest data as .json in your elasticsearch, you should be able to visualize your data in Kibana. and Yes. Right now Kibana connects only to ES. Here are our docs: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html) Thanks, Bhavya ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-use-kibana-to-show-historical-data/123892/3 "2018-04-11T21:09:30Z")
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