# Does Kibana works only with elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-works-only-with-elasticsearch/25866>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-works-only-with-elasticsearch/25866 "2015-07-20T03:49:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Anmol\_Gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Anmol\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anmol_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-works-only-with-elasticsearch/25866/1 "2015-07-20T03:49:33Z")

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are kibana and elasticsearch are meant to be together ?? Can we use kibana with some other search engine other than elasticsearch or is it meant to be only with elasticsearch?

Need this information as soon as possible  
Thank you

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-works-only-with-elasticsearch/25866/2 "2015-07-20T04:50:44Z")

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It only works with Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![stsuch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@stsuch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stsuch)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-works-only-with-elasticsearch/25866/3 "2015-07-20T20:22:37Z")

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Actually, logstash and kibana have been ported to run with Solr. You can find information here [https://github.com/LucidWorks/banana](https://github.com/LucidWorks/banana)

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-works-only-with-elasticsearch/25866/4 "2015-07-20T20:45:00Z")

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These ports are based on older versions, and given the speed at which Elastic is moving, they are always going to lag behind. I've run into very few people using this port in practice.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-works-only-with-elasticsearch/25866/5 "2017-07-06T14:16:11Z")

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