# How does kibana generates the visualizations?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-generates-the-visualizations/298721>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 3, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-kibana-generates-the-visualizations/298721 "2022-03-03T10:00:05Z")\
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The charts are created on the frontend side. We are getting the data from ES by running the aggregations, filter/search etc and pass them to the charts.

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