# ElasticHQ
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 22, 2016, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565 "2016-08-22T09:57:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@zen.xen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zen.xen)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/1 "2016-08-22T09:57:53Z")
Hello,
I need some help, in ElasticHQ there is a button "Query", when I click it I get such interface:
indices look like winlogbeat-2016.08.22, winlogbeat-2016.08.21 and so on, I would like to use a "Search Query ..." but I don't know how to use it. I was searching a sample in the Internet but I failed, could you give me a sample?
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### Author:  [@forloop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/forloop)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/2 "2016-08-23T11:11:56Z")
Since[ElasticHQ](http://www.elastichq.org/) is a third party plugin, I'd recommend asking on [the ElasticHQ community forums](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elastichq).
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### Author:  [@Phani\_Nadiminti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phani_Nadiminti)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/3 "2016-08-23T13:35:26Z")
Hi,
HQ is fine to trace out some stats of ElasticCluster . For querying purpose you can use head plugin it will provide a gui for search operations to make our searh process easy.
The following will work for ES v 1.5.2 you can choose plugin based on your es version.
query using sql which will give json query as well.
./bin/plugin -u [https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql/releases/download/1.4.9/elasticsearch-sql-1.4.9.zip](https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql/releases/download/1.4.9/elasticsearch-sql-1.4.9.zip) --install sql
head installation:
/plugin -install mobz/elasticsearch-head/1.x
you can access :9200/\_plugin/head
Phani
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### Author:  [@zen.xen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zen.xen)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/4 "2016-08-23T18:45:52Z")
Hi,
looks good, thank you.
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### Author:  [@forloop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/forloop)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/5 "2016-08-23T22:15:00Z")
There's also [Sense](https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-sense-a-cool-json-aware-interface-to-elasticsearch) if you're looking for an in browser query UI. The great feature of sense is that it provides context aware intellisense (autocompletion of query properties). [It can be installed as a plugin in Kibana.](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/sense/current/installing.html)
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### Author:  [@zen.xen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zen.xen)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/6 "2016-08-24T10:37:04Z")
Hi,
when I can access :9200/\_plugin/head there is a tab `Any Request`, there is
my question is, how to build a query to get any results?
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### Author:  [@forloop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/forloop)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/7 "2016-08-24T10:52:00Z")
That depends on what type of query you need to do 😉 I'd suggest[starting with Sense](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/sense/current/installing.html) because the autocompletion will help you to learn the different queries, their parameters, and the syntax for them.
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### Author:  [@zen.xen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zen.xen)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/8 "2016-08-24T11:01:45Z")
I'm just reading about Sense and it looks a little bit helpfull
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### Author:  [@Phani\_Nadiminti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Phani_Nadiminti)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/9 "2016-08-24T15:13:08Z")
Hi Zen,
I am using es version 1.5.2 and head it will be look like following.
head version is head 1.x. using structured query tab you can directly query es to get desired result.
Thanks
phani
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### Author:  [@zen.xen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zen.xen)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/10 "2016-08-24T16:14:39Z")
Hi Phani,
this tab that you show I understand how to use, but there is other one Any Request and this one I don't understand, maybe you know how to use it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastichq/58565/11 "2017-07-05T22:25:27Z")