# Ingesting Data from an API

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-data-from-an-api/328186>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 21, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-data-from-an-api/328186 "2023-03-21T16:47:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mrodski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e79b87/32.png) [@mrodski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrodski)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-data-from-an-api/328186/1 "2023-03-21T16:47:31Z")

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So I am pretty new to Elastic and have it installed on my servers. I do not have Elastic Cloud Services at this point in time. How do you take an API call from one server and have it ingested into Elastic so that I can visualize it in Kibana?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-data-from-an-api/328186/2 "2023-03-21T21:18:14Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

Neither Elasticsearch or Kibana are designed to pull data from 3rd party systems, you will need to look at using something like the Elastic Agent or Beats to do that for you.

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**Author:** ![mrodski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e79b87/32.png) [@mrodski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrodski)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-data-from-an-api/328186/3 "2023-03-22T10:49:36Z")

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What would be the best approach and how would I go about setting it up?  
Thank you for your help!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-data-from-an-api/328186/4 "2023-03-22T21:32:09Z")

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It depends on what exactly you want to do, if you can share more details on that we can provide better advice.

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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:** [April 19, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-data-from-an-api/328186/5 "2023-04-19T21:32:51Z")

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