Kibana interacting with Elasticsearch

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Hi All,

I was exploring the Kibana as one of our solutions for Observability. Had 2 queries:

Q: How does Kibana interact with the elasticsearch? Does it internally call the same elasticsearch APIs that are already exposed?
Q: Are there any Kibana APIs exposed similar to elasticsearch's search query? (/_search)

Thanks!

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Welcome to our community! :smiley:

  1. Yep, it does to get the data and display the results.
  2. Yes but not search, more around management. Not all of them are documented - they are works in progress. Check out https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api.html
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Hi Mark,

Thanks for the inputs!
Could you give a bit more context, if possible, on how Kibana calls the elasticsearch API?

Much Appreciated!

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It uses the nodejs framework to make HTTP(S) calls to the API.
Not sure how much deeper you want to go sorry?

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Yea, just wanted to understand the flow Mark and slightly reduce the time to search the source code :slight_smile:

Does Kibana support the functionality to call external API's other than the ES nodejs framework?

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I don't know it on that level so can't comment sorry, maybe someone else can chime in :slight_smile:

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