# Edit a line in Elastic Search through Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-a-line-in-elastic-search-through-kibana/379179>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 14, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-a-line-in-elastic-search-through-kibana/379179 "2025-06-14T18:53:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yoann\_Buzenet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yoann_buzenet/32/133522_2.png) [@Yoann\_Buzenet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yoann_Buzenet)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-a-line-in-elastic-search-through-kibana/379179/1 "2025-06-14T18:53:02Z")

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Hello,

Is it possible to edit a line saved in Elastic Search with Kibana ? If I browse the lines of an index, can editing via the GUI be done ? It just seems read only.

I would want to do that for making test on requests, without having to change seed every time.

Thank you  
Yoann

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**Author:** ![RainTown](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raintown/32/140206_2.png) [@RainTown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RainTown)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-a-line-in-elastic-search-through-kibana/379179/2 "2025-06-14T20:47:02Z")

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> [@Yoann\_Buzenet](#):
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> If I browse the lines of an index

I will presume you mean the _documents_ in an index.

> [@Yoann\_Buzenet](#):
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> Is it possible to edit a line saved in Elastic Search with Kibana

In normal sense of the word "edit", no. You can use DevTools / APIs to update documents, e.g. based on \_id, amongst many other ways.

> [@Yoann\_Buzenet](#):
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> I would want to do that for making test on requests, without having to change seed every time.

Sorry. but to me the requirement here is unclear? Perhaps you can give an example.

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**Author:** ![Yoann\_Buzenet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yoann_buzenet/32/133522_2.png) [@Yoann\_Buzenet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yoann_Buzenet)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/edit-a-line-in-elastic-search-through-kibana/379179/3 "2025-06-15T10:50:03Z")

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Yes I meant the documents, thank you.

Ok, i will do it through request in the dev tools.

I wanted to quickly edit a field in one click without writing the full request, to check how another aggregating request would perform. I'll just persist my "updating" request in a repo for that purpose.

Thank you for your answer