# Kibana interacting with Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interacting-with-elasticsearch/257940>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 8, 2020, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interacting-with-elasticsearch/257940 "2020-12-08T06:07:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![anarnold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@anarnold](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anarnold)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interacting-with-elasticsearch/257940/1 "2020-12-08T06:07:07Z")

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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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**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:** [December 8, 2020, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interacting-with-elasticsearch/257940/2 "2020-12-08T06:31:21Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

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](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api.html)

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**Author:** ![anarnold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@anarnold](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anarnold)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interacting-with-elasticsearch/257940/3 "2020-12-08T06:39:44Z")

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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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**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:** [December 8, 2020, 6:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interacting-with-elasticsearch/257940/4 "2020-12-08T06:41:35Z")

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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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**Author:** ![anarnold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@anarnold](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anarnold)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interacting-with-elasticsearch/257940/5 "2020-12-09T03:37:00Z")

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

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

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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:** [December 9, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interacting-with-elasticsearch/257940/6 "2020-12-09T03:39:04Z")

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

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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:** [January 6, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-interacting-with-elasticsearch/257940/7 "2021-01-06T03:39:13Z")

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