# Global variables in Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-variables-in-kibana/227023>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 7, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-variables-in-kibana/227023 "2020-04-07T22:55:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![cyberzlo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cyberzlo/32/65490_2.png) [@cyberzlo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberzlo)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-variables-in-kibana/227023/1 "2020-04-07T22:55:59Z")

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Is this possible to create some global variable for Kibana and use it in search queries? or even there are some buildin variables such as Kibana IP etc?

for example I would like to query Kibana such as:  
`some.field:$kibana_ip`  
etc

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**Author:** ![joelgriffith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joelgriffith/32/53738_2.png) [@joelgriffith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joelgriffith)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-variables-in-kibana/227023/2 "2020-04-08T21:36:04Z")

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@cyberzlo I don't think this is currently possible, the only thing that comes to my mind is ElasticSearch query templates: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-template.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-template.html), which you might be able to utilize for your use-case.

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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 6, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-variables-in-kibana/227023/3 "2020-05-06T21:36:05Z")

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