# Kibana - showing related data in a dashboard **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 27, 2014, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-showing-related-data-in-a-dashboard/20965 "2014-11-27T06:04:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chris\_Bennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Chris\_Bennett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Bennett)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-showing-related-data-in-a-dashboard/20965/1 "2014-11-27T06:04:35Z")
Hi there, I've got some data sources being parsed and written into EL from logstash, and it would be great to report on additional metadata related to the record stored in EL. e.g. for a network flow record, reporting information like the BGP AS (Autonomous System) name related to the source and destination IP. I can add this info to each record from Logstash and store in EL, but it seems redundant to store this data over and over when it could be looked up in realtime from another data source. Can such a thing be done with Kibana or does it require a more custom approach reading directly from EL? Thanks, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/20141127060435.GA29723%40cgb-linux.rcmb.lan](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/20141127060435.GA29723%40cgb-linux.rcmb.lan). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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:** [November 27, 2014, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-showing-related-data-in-a-dashboard/20965/2 "2014-11-27T06:06:06Z")
That'd be a custom job as KB just pulls and displays data from ES, assuming it has everything in the doc. On 27 November 2014 at 17:04, Chris Bennett [chris@ceegeebee.com](mailto:chris@ceegeebee.com) wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got some data sources being parsed and written into EL from > logstash, and it would be great to report on additional metadata > related to the record stored in EL. e.g. for a network flow record, > reporting information like the BGP AS (Autonomous System) name related > to the source and destination IP. > > I can add this info to each record from Logstash and store in EL, but > it seems redundant to store this data over and over when it could be > looked up in realtime from another data source. > > Can such a thing be done with Kibana or does it require a more custom > approach reading directly from EL? > > Thanks, > > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/20141127060435.GA29723%40cgb-linux.rcmb.lan](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/20141127060435.GA29723%40cgb-linux.rcmb.lan) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAF3ZnZnOy91obDj%3DsDvNSfqmLcKj9nbTKBtxZ%3D8RW5BdxNb3gw%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAF3ZnZnOy91obDj%3DsDvNSfqmLcKj9nbTKBtxZ%3D8RW5BdxNb3gw%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Bennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Chris\_Bennett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Bennett)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-showing-related-data-in-a-dashboard/20965/3 "2014-11-27T06:37:51Z")
> That'd be a custom job as KB just pulls and displays data from ES, > assuming it has everything in the doc. Thanks Mark - was suspecting that was the case. The only problem I've found with my playing with ELK thus far is the sheer explosion of ideas about what I can do to visualise & report on all the data I'm ingesting... 🙂 Regards, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/20141127063751.GB29723%40cgb-linux.rcmb.lan](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/20141127063751.GB29723%40cgb-linux.rcmb.lan). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-showing-related-data-in-a-dashboard/20965/4 "2017-07-06T00:47:20Z")