# Is it possible to see the ES query a visualization performs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-see-the-es-query-a-visualization-performs/63116
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 15, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-see-the-es-query-a-visualization-performs/63116 "2016-10-15T20:28:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@stefws](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stefws)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-see-the-es-query-a-visualization-performs/63116/1 "2016-10-15T20:28:47Z")
Hi, I've made a visualization in K 4.5.4 which I would like retrieve as a json file. So I thought that maybe if I could find the underlying query I could run this via curl and save output to a file, but how to I find the query a visualization do?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-see-the-es-query-a-visualization-performs/63116/2 "2016-10-15T20:57:20Z")
Click the little `^` at the bottom of the vis, you can then see the query.
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### Author:  [@stefws](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stefws)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-see-the-es-query-a-visualization-performs/63116/3 "2016-10-15T21:00:26Z")
🙂 yop thanks, had a feeling is would be easy.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-see-the-es-query-a-visualization-performs/63116/4 "2017-07-06T13:36:31Z")