# Does doing a POST query via the devtools update index-pattern?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-doing-a-post-query-via-the-devtools-update-index-pattern/389264>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 5, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-doing-a-post-query-via-the-devtools-update-index-pattern/389264 "2026-08-05T15:40:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whoami1980](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/whoami1980/32/147545_2.png) [@Whoami1980](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Whoami1980)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-doing-a-post-query-via-the-devtools-update-index-pattern/389264/1 "2026-08-05T15:40:39Z")

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Does doing a POST query likes these via the devtools update index-pattern?

If the answer is yes.  
Does it impact the data in Elasticsearch?  
Or its purely visualization?

```auto
POST /_query?format=txt
{
  "query": """
  FROM .ml-notifications*
| WHERE (job_id) == "kibana-logs"
    AND message IN ("Datafeed stopped", "Job opened")
| LIMIT 10
    """
}

```

```auto
POST /_query?format=txt
{
  "query": """
  FROM ABCD:.monitoring-*
| WHERE @timestamp > NOW() - 8 hours
    AND (node_stats.process.cpu.percent) > 50
    OR (node_stats.jvm.mem.heap_used_percent) > 50
| STATS 
      process_cpu = AVG(node_stats.process.cpu.percent),
      jvm_mem = AVG(node_stats.jvm.mem.heap_used_percent),
      fs_avail = AVG(elasticsearch.node.stats.fs.total.available_in_bytes)
    BY elasticsearch.node.name
    EVAL fs_avail_gb = ROUND((TO_DOUBLE(fs_avail) / 1,073,741,824) * 100, 2)
| WHERE process_cpu > 50
| SORT process_cpu DESC
| LIMIT 100
    """
}

```

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-doing-a-post-query-via-the-devtools-update-index-pattern/389264/2 "2026-08-05T16:03:54Z")

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What index pattern? The Data Views in Kibana?

If so, this is unrelated, those requests would be the same as if you used an external tool to make a query.

Data Views are a Kibana feature.