# Control from Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-from-kibana/132064>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 16, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-from-kibana/132064 "2018-05-16T08:40:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![rakeshscetic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@rakeshscetic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rakeshscetic)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-from-kibana/132064/1 "2018-05-16T08:40:33Z")

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Hello Guys,

I am new to ELK and in learning phase. I want to send some command from Kibana dashboard to my IoT gateway controller, can anyone tell me is it possible or not if so how to implement it.

Thanks  
Rakesh

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-from-kibana/132064/2 "2018-05-16T21:12:47Z")

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You would need your own web application that has url routes that you can access as links from within a Kibana dashboard. Then you can make a visualization that summarizes the Elasticsearch data into actions for the gateway, and format the action as a web link.

There are limited options available for getting a link into a Kibana dashboard. You can do a Markdown visualization if the URLs will just be static, and a TSVB Markdown visualization if the URL needs a time-based metric. You can also format fields and scripted fields to show in Kibana as URLs with the string formatter.

There's a new experimental plugin made for the latest version of Kibana that has more Markdown abilities with handlebars, and it isn't restricted to time-based data: [http://canvas.elastic.co/](http://canvas.elastic.co/). Canvas can do much more as well, allowing you to create custom functions that can talk to APIs. That might be just what you're looking for. 😃

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**Author:** ![rakeshscetic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@rakeshscetic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rakeshscetic)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-from-kibana/132064/3 "2018-05-22T09:49:11Z")

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Thank You Tim,

I will look as you said and get back

Appreciate for your reply.

Thanks,  
Rakesh

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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:** [June 19, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-from-kibana/132064/4 "2018-06-19T09:49:21Z")

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