# Investigating tools - seeking suggestions

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/investigating-tools-seeking-suggestions/96533>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 10, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/investigating-tools-seeking-suggestions/96533 "2017-08-10T01:25:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Yaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yaj)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/investigating-tools-seeking-suggestions/96533/1 "2017-08-10T01:25:53Z")

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Hello

Could forum members kindly help with the choice of an optimal tool-set?

1. Load a bunch of Excel spreadsheets and CSV files (preferably on the server side), combine the columns, parse and display the results of a query on the user's browser in an interactive html5 grid or similar?  
I have looked at Logagent (lighter) and Logstash (heavy) for the backend (with some sort of batch ingestion), and Kibana for the front-end, but not sure if they are the right tools.

2. Display the data using Kibana on a portal (could be angular etc.) such that only those rows to be displayed which the user is allowed to see?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/investigating-tools-seeking-suggestions/96533/2 "2017-08-16T15:04:41Z")

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Hi Yaj,

I have a couple of suggestions;

For loading Excel data into Elasticsearch there are some suggestions here (I haven't tried them);  
[https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ms-excel-plugin-for-elasticsearch?source\_topic\_id=96533](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ms-excel-plugin-for-elasticsearch?source_topic_id=96533)

For showing only the rows which a user is allowed to see, you could use Document Level Security which is available in the Platinum license of X-Pack. Other than using that, I think you'll be writing a custom application.  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/field-and-document-access-control.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/field-and-document-access-control.html)

Regards,  
Lee

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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:** [September 13, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/investigating-tools-seeking-suggestions/96533/3 "2017-09-13T15:04:42Z")

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