# Explain difference between Kibana "time ellapsed" and query "took"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/explain-difference-between-kibana-time-ellapsed-and-query-took/250763>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 2, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/explain-difference-between-kibana-time-ellapsed-and-query-took/250763 "2020-10-02T08:51:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/explain-difference-between-kibana-time-ellapsed-and-query-took/250763/2 "2020-10-02T13:45:01Z")

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Hi @ebuildy - this post is explaining what "took" is measuring: [Query timing: 'took' value and what I'm measuring](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-timing-took-value-and-what-im-measuring/9870)

In short it's how long the internals of Elasticsearch spent time on the request - everything outside of the cluster (JSON serializing, transmitting data, ...) is not included.

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