# How to add a new Kibana 5 data source besides elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-new-kibana-5-data-source-besides-elasticsearch/86792>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 23, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-new-kibana-5-data-source-besides-elasticsearch/86792 "2017-05-23T10:26:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Muhammad-Ezzat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/muhammad-ezzat/32/43652_2.png) [@Muhammad-Ezzat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad-Ezzat)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-new-kibana-5-data-source-besides-elasticsearch/86792/1 "2017-05-23T10:26:43Z")

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I'm attempting to add a new data source for Kibana to read from. Does it all it take is to only add a new plugin to the source code or there are other areas where I should take into consideration?

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-new-kibana-5-data-source-besides-elasticsearch/86792/2 "2017-05-23T13:26:58Z")

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Hi Muhammad,

I am not quite sure what kind of data source you want to Kibana to read.

Right now: Kibana can define index patterns on

1. Indexed data in ES
2. You can also use [https://www.elastic.co/products/beats](https://www.elastic.co/products/beats) for reading machine data.
3. or use logstash: [https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash](https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash)

Here is a list of Kibana plugins: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/known-plugins.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/known-plugins.html)  
Let me know if this helps.

Thanks,  
Bhavya

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**Author:** ![Muhammad-Ezzat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/muhammad-ezzat/32/43652_2.png) [@Muhammad-Ezzat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad-Ezzat)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-new-kibana-5-data-source-besides-elasticsearch/86792/3 "2017-05-23T14:51:36Z")

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Hi Bhavya,

Thank you for your reply.  
The data source that I want kibana to read from is Solr. I'm trying to edit the source code so that kibana 5 can read from solr too, so I'm wondering if i edit the plugin section, will kibana work with solr too? or there are other places in the source code where I should take into consideration?

Regards,  
Muhammad

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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:** [June 20, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-new-kibana-5-data-source-besides-elasticsearch/86792/4 "2017-06-20T14:52:10Z")

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