# Kibana connected to WebSockets

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-connected-to-websockets/225312>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-connected-to-websockets/225312 "2020-03-27T00:05:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jondorozco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@jondorozco](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jondorozco)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-connected-to-websockets/225312/1 "2020-03-27T00:05:15Z")

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Hi all,

I am looking to use Kibana as the visualization/monitoring tool. I have several questions regarding Kibana and Elasticsearch as a whole.

1. Does Kibana require Elasticsearch to perform its function of creating visualizations?

- Was hoping use Kibana to a data source and create my dashboards that way.

1. Can Kibana connect directly to data sources without Elasticsearch?

- web sockets
- REST API

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-connected-to-websockets/225312/2 "2020-03-27T04:25:14Z")

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Hi ,  
Kibana does require Elasticsearch to create Visualizations and Dashboards. Kibana is designed to use Elasticsearch as a data source. Think of Elasticsearch as the engine that stores and processes the data, with Kibana sitting on top.

No it's not possible, there's a very tight coupling here with ES and Kibana . I haven't seen any plugins for other sources, I don't think it would work too well though.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![jondorozco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@jondorozco](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jondorozco)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-connected-to-websockets/225312/3 "2020-03-27T16:18:51Z")

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Hi Rashmi,

Thank you for the response, it makes sense now. So essentially, if I wanted to connect to a web socket and visualize the data coming in, I would use the web-socket plugin in Logstash, have it process the data and display it through Kibana?

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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:** [April 24, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-connected-to-websockets/225312/4 "2020-04-24T16:19:03Z")

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