# Is Kibana right for visualising data in MongoDB?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-kibana-right-for-visualising-data-in-mongodb/87818>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 31, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-kibana-right-for-visualising-data-in-mongodb/87818 "2017-05-31T22:43:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevinstembridge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kevinstembridge/32/18693_2.png) [@kevinstembridge](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kevinstembridge)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-kibana-right-for-visualising-data-in-mongodb/87818/1 "2017-05-31T22:43:33Z")

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I'm looking for something that will allow me to visualise some data I have stored in Mongo and Kibana looks like a good front end. But if I understand correctly, it cannot query and display data from Mongo directly. That data must first be loaded into ES somehow.

I've read about mongo-connector, but as far as I can tell that basically just replicates CRUD operations. I would need something a little more sophisticated to query and aggregate the data.

I don't necessarily need something that is updated in real time.

Have I understood correctly? Is there any way for Kibana to query Mongo directly?

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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:** [May 31, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-kibana-right-for-visualising-data-in-mongodb/87818/2 "2017-05-31T22:56:55Z")

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> [@kevinstembridge](#):
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> Is there any way for Kibana to query Mongo directly?

No.

> [@kevinstembridge](#):
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> Have I understood correctly?

Your understanding is correct 🙂

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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:** [June 28, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-kibana-right-for-visualising-data-in-mongodb/87818/3 "2017-06-28T22:57:03Z")

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