# Connect elastic search or Kibana with SQL database

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-elastic-search-or-kibana-with-sql-database/269189>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning, elastic-stack-sql, kibana-plugin-development\
**Created:** [April 4, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-elastic-search-or-kibana-with-sql-database/269189 "2021-04-04T15:44:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![pooja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@pooja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pooja1)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-elastic-search-or-kibana-with-sql-database/269189/1 "2021-04-04T15:44:53Z")

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I have a database that is build in MYSQL. I want to connect it with Kibana so that I can access the data by a query  
Please let me know how should I do it?

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**Author:** ![Felix\_Roessel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felix_roessel/32/41623_2.png) [@Felix\_Roessel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Felix_Roessel)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-elastic-search-or-kibana-with-sql-database/269189/2 "2021-04-04T17:34:44Z")

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You need to use the Logstash JDBC Input to get the data into Elasticsearch before you are able to query the data with Kibana.

> **[Jdbc input plugin | Logstash Reference \[7.12\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-jdbc.html)**

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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-elastic-search-or-kibana-with-sql-database/269189/3 "2021-04-04T20:45:41Z")

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Like Felix said you have to copy data from mysql to ELK. and then keep syncing  
I have quite a few mysql and sqlserver database sync like this in ELK. using jdbc for frequent sync  
and use python for non frequent sync.

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**Author:** ![pooja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@pooja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pooja1)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-elastic-search-or-kibana-with-sql-database/269189/4 "2021-04-05T06:02:55Z")

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Okay , I will do that  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![pooja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@pooja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pooja1)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-elastic-search-or-kibana-with-sql-database/269189/5 "2021-04-05T06:03:22Z")

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Okay . I will install the same  
Thanks

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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:** [May 3, 2021, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-elastic-search-or-kibana-with-sql-database/269189/6 "2021-05-03T06:04:18Z")

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