# Is it possible to export logs from Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-export-logs-from-kibana/133356>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 25, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-export-logs-from-kibana/133356 "2018-05-25T19:08:05Z")\
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There are some patches for CSV export for 5.6.x, linked in this thread: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1992](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1992)

You can also export Visualizations, which is available in older versions like Kibana 4. This doesn't export all the raw data, just the summary responses, but may be sufficient for some use cases:

> [@How to make a table like Excel sheet with Kibana?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-table-like-excel-sheet-with-kibana/25687/6):
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> Yeah, export of data tables from Discover is still on the roadmap: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1992](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1992) However, if you can create a useful summary of that data in Visualize, you can export that today:

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