# Kibana - Snapshot API for Graphs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-snapshot-api-for-graphs/169609>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 22, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-snapshot-api-for-graphs/169609 "2019-02-22T16:44:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Kai\_Tea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kai\_Tea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kai_Tea)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-snapshot-api-for-graphs/169609/1 "2019-02-22T16:44:30Z")

</div>

Hi,

Is there an API available to retrieve a bitmap image for a kibana graph (given the appropriate payload for generating the graph) ?

If not, are there plans to build such an API?

We are looking for something similar to this:  
[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API\_GetMetricWidgetImage.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_GetMetricWidgetImage.html)

Thanks

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-snapshot-api-for-graphs/169609/2 "2019-02-25T22:55:24Z")

</div>

The best you could do right now is use the [Reporting](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/xpack-reporting.html) plugin to generate a PNG from an existing saved object. [This doc](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/automating-report-generation.html) describes how to do that from Watcher but you can hit the same URLs from any third party app.

If you need a different image filetype or the ability to generate reports from visualizations that aren't already saved, I'd recommend filing an enhancement request on [our Github repo](https://github.com/elastic/kibana).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-snapshot-api-for-graphs/169609/3 "2019-03-25T22:55:26Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.