# Can Kibana do more than visualize?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-do-more-than-visualize/248399>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 12, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-do-more-than-visualize/248399 "2020-09-12T04:07:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![DThompson55](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dthompson55/32/75391_2.png) [@DThompson55](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DThompson55)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-do-more-than-visualize/248399/1 "2020-09-12T04:07:51Z")

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Once I search for and find a specific row (if that's the right word) in an index, I need some way to act on it, like send it to a kafka topic for example. Is there a way to do that in kibana, or do I need something else?

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**Author:** ![aaron-nimocks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron-nimocks/32/73965_2.png) [@aaron-nimocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron-nimocks)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-do-more-than-visualize/248399/2 "2020-09-12T12:26:12Z")

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[Logstash](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/7.9/pipeline.html) would do this. It has 3 modules. ([input](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/7.9/input-plugins.html), [filter](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/7.9/filter-plugins.html), [output](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/7.9/output-plugins.html)).

In your case you would have an [Elasticsearch Input](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/7.9/plugins-inputs-elasticsearch.html) to get the data you want.  
Then you can change the data using [filters](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/7.9/filter-plugins.html) if you want.  
When that is done you [output to a Kafka Topic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/7.9/plugins-outputs-kafka.html).

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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 10, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-do-more-than-visualize/248399/3 "2020-10-10T12:26:21Z")

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