# Kibana & Jolokia
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-jolokia/75760
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 20, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-jolokia/75760 "2017-02-20T15:14:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@medley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/medley)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-jolokia/75760/1 "2017-02-20T15:14:06Z")
Hello,
I am using Jolokia to get metrics from a Tomcat installed on a Sun Solaris Server.
I would like to know if I can easily build dashboards with Kibana 4 or if it is better to use an other solution such as Grafana.
M.
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### Author:  [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-jolokia/75760/2 "2017-02-20T15:33:35Z")
Hi @medley,
in order to visualize the metrics in Kibana, they have to be stored in Elasticsearch first. There is quite a variety of ways to achieve that given your description:
- using [httpbeat](https://github.com/christiangalsterer/httpbeat)
- using [logstash's http\_poller input](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-http_poller.html)
- using [logstash's jmx input](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-jmx.html)
- using [jmxproxybeat](https://github.com/radoondas/jmxproxybeat)
Once your metrics have been stored in Elasticsearch it should be easy to create a diverse set of visualizations.
If you don't already have an older version of the Elastic Stack installed, which your cannot update, I would strongly recommend starting with the newest version 5.2.1 of Kibana.
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### Author:  [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-jolokia/75760/3 "2017-02-21T09:22:01Z")
I just saw that [metricbeat](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat) will gain a native [Jolokia module](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/3570) in one of the upcoming releases.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-jolokia/75760/4 "2017-03-21T09:22:08Z")
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