# Is possible to query logs from S3 bucket from directly in Kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-possible-to-query-logs-from-s3-bucket-from-directly-in-kibana/163839
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 11, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-possible-to-query-logs-from-s3-bucket-from-directly-in-kibana/163839 "2019-01-11T05:20:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@sadiesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sadiesh)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-possible-to-query-logs-from-s3-bucket-from-directly-in-kibana/163839/1 "2019-01-11T05:20:36Z")
As part of my housekeeping process , I have to push a week older logs to S3 bucket due to server space limitations . We want to query the same logs which is stored in S3 from Kibana. Is it possible ?
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-possible-to-query-logs-from-s3-bucket-from-directly-in-kibana/163839/2 "2019-01-11T06:20:02Z")
No, Kibana requires the data to be indexed in Elasticsearch.
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### Author:  [@sadiesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sadiesh)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-possible-to-query-logs-from-s3-bucket-from-directly-in-kibana/163839/3 "2019-01-11T07:59:28Z")
Thanks Christian. We cant access S3 logs other than by using logstash input plugin?
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### Author:  [@sadiesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sadiesh)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-possible-to-query-logs-from-s3-bucket-from-directly-in-kibana/163839/4 "2019-01-11T10:35:46Z")
HI Christian,
We are Having S3 Object Storage Hosted in AWS, We want to mount S3 Bucket as a Drive and us for Elastic Search to get queried in Kibana.
Kindly let us know how can we do it.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-possible-to-query-logs-from-s3-bucket-from-directly-in-kibana/163839/5 "2019-01-11T11:46:13Z")
You can not. You need to index the data into Elasticsearch, e.g. using Logstash.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-possible-to-query-logs-from-s3-bucket-from-directly-in-kibana/163839/6 "2019-02-08T11:46:14Z")
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