# How to get xml option in kibana instead of json

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-xml-option-in-kibana-instead-of-json/127425>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 10, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-xml-option-in-kibana-instead-of-json/127425 "2018-04-10T06:48:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![gangireddy\_l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c89c15/32.png) [@gangireddy\_l](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gangireddy_l)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-xml-option-in-kibana-instead-of-json/127425/1 "2018-04-10T06:48:34Z")

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my logs are in xml format and how to get as it is in kibana, because it had only table and json features

thanks in advance

![kib](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/f/4f78015c60bcfd5503d396e0908731222eaa2e2c.PNG)

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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:** [April 10, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-xml-option-in-kibana-instead-of-json/127425/2 "2018-04-10T14:20:47Z")

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Hi,

You will need to convert that into json, load it into elasticsearch and then use Kibana to explore and visualize. Its not possible to ingest data in xml format to elasticsearch now.

Thanks,  
Bhavya

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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:** [May 8, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-xml-option-in-kibana-instead-of-json/127425/3 "2018-05-08T14:20:47Z")

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