# How does Kibana generate graph?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-generate-graph/35719>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 27, 2015, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-generate-graph/35719 "2015-11-27T08:36:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Nontenda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Nontenda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nontenda)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-generate-graph/35719/1 "2015-11-27T08:36:49Z")

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Hi everyone,

Does anyone know how Kibana creates the graph with the returned data from Elasticsearch ?

We can see the response from ElasticSearch on Kibana, it begins with :

```
{
  "took": 634,
  "hits": {
"hits": [
  {

```

Does Kibana use a library or something ?

Thank you very much.  
Best regards,

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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:** [November 27, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-generate-graph/35719/2 "2015-11-27T09:17:56Z")

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Yes, it uses D3.

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**Author:** ![Nontenda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Nontenda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nontenda)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-generate-graph/35719/3 "2015-11-27T12:24:50Z")

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Thank you really much, I will look at D3 😀

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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, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-generate-graph/35719/4 "2017-07-06T14:08:04Z")

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