# How to extract kibana visualization query?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extract-kibana-visualization-query/67621
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 30, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extract-kibana-visualization-query/67621 "2016-11-30T13:37:09Z")
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### Author: ![abhi\_chinchole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@abhi\_chinchole](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhi_chinchole)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extract-kibana-visualization-query/67621/1 "2016-11-30T13:37:09Z")

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I am moving away from kibana and want to extract all visualization queries from existing dashboard. I want queries to be in such format which I can use directly on elasticsearch to get same result as it is on kibana.  
Example: I have an pie chart containing top 10 IP addresses as per the number of hits.  
Is it possible to extract queries in such format? If Yes then How it can be achieved ?

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### Author: ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extract-kibana-visualization-query/67621/2 "2016-11-30T23:48:13Z")

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There isn't a good way to export the real ES queries in bulk, but you can access them manually in the spy tab of each visualization. This is because the queries get generated at execution time.

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### Author: ![abhi\_chinchole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@abhi\_chinchole](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhi_chinchole)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extract-kibana-visualization-query/67621/3 "2016-12-01T05:33:41Z")

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Thats the thing I wanted !!!  
Thanks a lot @Bargs

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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: [December 29, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extract-kibana-visualization-query/67621/4 "2016-12-29T05:33:40Z")

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