# Can Kibana to connect to data-sources OTHER than Elasticsearch?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-to-connect-to-data-sources-other-than-elasticsearch/181863
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 20, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-to-connect-to-data-sources-other-than-elasticsearch/181863 "2019-05-20T15:23:00Z")
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### Author:  [@Adithyaram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adithyaram)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-to-connect-to-data-sources-other-than-elasticsearch/181863/1 "2019-05-20T15:23:00Z")
Hello,
I have a data sources (InfluxDB) other than ElasticSearch. There are two parts to my question:
1. With the Kibana 7.0 (or any other version), are there options to include InfluxDB as a datasource? (This could be considered as a follow up question to this issue: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/9830](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/9830))
2. If this option is still unavailable, are there any plugins that are currently available for me to add influxdb as a datasource?
I know there have been questions around this Topic previously on this forum and SO. Apologies for asking this question again.
Thanks for all the help.
Best,
Adithya
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-to-connect-to-data-sources-other-than-elasticsearch/181863/2 "2019-05-20T15:25:09Z")
No it's not possible, there's a very tight coupling here.
I haven't seen any plugins for other sources, I don't think it would work too well though.
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### Author:  [@Adithyaram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adithyaram)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-to-connect-to-data-sources-other-than-elasticsearch/181863/3 "2019-05-20T16:09:51Z")
Thank you for the immediate reply. Is there any other work around that you would suggest ?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-to-connect-to-data-sources-other-than-elasticsearch/181863/4 "2019-05-20T16:17:48Z")
Nope, sorry.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-to-connect-to-data-sources-other-than-elasticsearch/181863/5 "2019-06-17T16:17:51Z")
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