# How to connect elasticsearch with kibana?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-with-kibana/145899
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 24, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-with-kibana/145899 "2018-08-24T11:22:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Narasimma\_varman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Narasimma_varman)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-with-kibana/145899/1 "2018-08-24T11:22:54Z")
Hi
I try to create a custom plugin for that I need to connect elasticsearch with kibana through code. Is there any process to achieve this, can anyone help to resolve this issue.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-with-kibana/145899/2 "2018-08-24T13:50:38Z")
Kibana is already connected to Elasticsearch by default, otherwise it doesn't work.
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### Author:  [@Narasimma\_varman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Narasimma_varman)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-with-kibana/145899/3 "2018-09-03T09:07:35Z")
I am asking for creating custom plugin
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-elasticsearch-with-kibana/145899/4 "2018-10-01T09:07:50Z")
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