# Link external data to Elastic
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-external-data-to-elastic/226964
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 7, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-external-data-to-elastic/226964 "2020-04-07T17:32:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@anjana1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anjana1)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-external-data-to-elastic/226964/1 "2020-04-07T17:32:30Z")
**Kibana version** : 7.6
**Elasticsearch version** : 7.6
**APM Server version** : 7.3.2
**APM Agent language and version** : java 1.9.0
**Fresh install or upgraded from other version?** fresh install
**Is there anything special in your setup?** For example, are you using the Logstash or Kafka outputs? Are you using a load balancer in front of the APM Servers? Have you changed index pattern, generated custom templates, changed agent configuration etc. :-----No
**Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior. Please include screenshots (if relevant)** :
I want to link external data to elastic search . That means fetch the data from an external datasource to elasticsearch. I found the below link. Is this the right approach?
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/lookup-enrichment.html#jdbc-stream-def](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/lookup-enrichment.html#jdbc-stream-def)
So if we have target =\> "country\_details" ,can we directly search for country\_details in Kibana so that I can map them directly?.
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### Author:  [@anjana1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anjana1)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-external-data-to-elastic/226964/2 "2020-04-15T20:33:57Z")
Any updates?
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### Author:  [@anjana1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anjana1)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-external-data-to-elastic/226964/3 "2020-04-23T21:12:47Z")
still waiting
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-external-data-to-elastic/226964/4 "2020-04-24T02:33:05Z")
Could you share a typical example of what you have today and what you want?
Is it an Elasticsearch question (regarding the data itself) or a Kibana question (regarding the way to visualize data)?
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### Author:  [@anjana1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anjana1)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-external-data-to-elastic/226964/5 "2020-04-24T18:39:49Z")
I have question for both elastic search and Kibana. I have data pulled up from elastic search so far and displayed in Kibana and I have APM agent to access my application. I have been setting data on to APM labels and displaying in Kibana.So for each event I am capturing data among few are reduntant data. So it will be much more efficient if we can load the redundant data from external data look up .
For external data look up I assume we have to do it via Logstash correct?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-external-data-to-elastic/226964/6 "2020-05-22T18:39:53Z")
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