# Is it possible to have a "kibana-like" query bar like the current Kibana beta?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-kibana-like-query-bar-like-the-current-kibana-beta/153902>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 25, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-kibana-like-query-bar-like-the-current-kibana-beta/153902 "2018-10-25T04:22:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![jthoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jthoni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jthoni)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-kibana-like-query-bar-like-the-current-kibana-beta/153902/1 "2018-10-25T04:22:16Z")

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A co-worker of mine said he saw an ad on Facebook for using a "Query Bar" with ES outside of Kibana. We would love to implement something like that (i.e. a bar that would auto complete field names and values), but I have found no information that talks about this other than what I see w/in Kibana.

Is this something that is possible (i.e. hosting a control like this in a SPA) without exposing Kibana or writing a control from scratch?

Thanks!  
~john

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-kibana-like-query-bar-like-the-current-kibana-beta/153902/2 "2018-10-25T06:43:07Z")

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You can check the kibana source and extract the desired functionality as it is open source. The basic idea is to check the mapping of fields in Elasticsearch and based on that build autocomplete functionality.

I'll move this over to the kibana forum, maybe you get some better answers over there.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-kibana-like-query-bar-like-the-current-kibana-beta/153902/3 "2018-10-25T06:48:17Z")

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I wonder if this could be related to our [site-search service](https://www.elastic.co/solutions/site-search)?

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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:** [November 22, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-kibana-like-query-bar-like-the-current-kibana-beta/153902/4 "2018-11-22T06:48:20Z")

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