# Does Kibana supports external rest api calls

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-supports-external-rest-api-calls/81243>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 5, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-supports-external-rest-api-calls/81243 "2017-04-05T03:32:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Manikanth\_Reddy\_Koor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Manikanth\_Reddy\_Koor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Manikanth_Reddy_Koor)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-supports-external-rest-api-calls/81243/1 "2017-04-05T03:32:29Z")

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Does Kibana supports calling another external url(rest api call) by providing query parameters and gives the response.

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-supports-external-rest-api-calls/81243/2 "2017-04-05T22:26:10Z")

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What are you looking to accomplish?

Timelion can use other data sources, like the Worldbank's Data API. It's pluggable so you can add your own.

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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, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-supports-external-rest-api-calls/81243/3 "2017-05-03T22:26:21Z")

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