# Kibana for non-elasticsearch ReST APIs request

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-for-non-elasticsearch-rest-apis-request/91991>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 5, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-for-non-elasticsearch-rest-apis-request/91991 "2017-07-05T21:59:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amit\_Sehgal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amit_sehgal/32/19804_2.png) [@Amit\_Sehgal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit_Sehgal)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-for-non-elasticsearch-rest-apis-request/91991/1 "2017-07-05T21:59:19Z")

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Hi Folks,

I've been using Kibana to search Elasticsearch indices from sometime. I was wondering if i can create custom dashboards which can make Rest calls to non-elasticsearch sources ? and map the output json

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-for-non-elasticsearch-rest-apis-request/91991/2 "2017-07-05T22:23:38Z")

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Kibana only supports Elasticsearch as a backend for the moment. Sorry!

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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:** [August 2, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-for-non-elasticsearch-rest-apis-request/91991/3 "2017-08-02T22:23:46Z")

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