# Plans for KQL support in Kibana Stack Alert "Elasticsearch query"?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-for-kql-support-in-kibana-stack-alert-elasticsearch-query/290381>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 28, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-for-kql-support-in-kibana-stack-alert-elasticsearch-query/290381 "2021-11-28T22:48:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sandra\_Schlichting](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sandra_schlichting/32/84122_2.png) [@Sandra\_Schlichting](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sandra_Schlichting)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-for-kql-support-in-kibana-stack-alert-elasticsearch-query/290381/1 "2021-11-28T22:48:16Z")

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Dear all =)

When using Kibana Stack Alert "Elasticsearch query", it is only possible to provide Lucene. Are there any plans to support KQL, so it would just convert it to Lucene?

It would be very useful since there is no API to convert KQL to Lucene =)

Hugs,  
Sandra =)

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-for-kql-support-in-kibana-stack-alert-elasticsearch-query/290381/2 "2021-11-29T15:36:38Z")

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Hi @Sandra_Schlichting

Looks like there is a feature request open for this

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/91860>
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> As a followup to https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/61313, we also want to… allow a KQL search alert in addition to ES DSL. This could be potentially part of the same search alert with a switch to allow entering KQL or ES DSL (or Lucene as well).
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> See comments https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/61313 for some initial discussion about KQL

Perhaps you should add your comments / vote etc.

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**Author:** ![Sandra\_Schlichting](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sandra_schlichting/32/84122_2.png) [@Sandra\_Schlichting](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sandra_Schlichting)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-for-kql-support-in-kibana-stack-alert-elasticsearch-query/290381/3 "2021-11-29T19:35:59Z")

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Dear @stephenb

That is exactly the feature request I was hoping to find =) I'll ask our Elastic contact person if he can somehow pull some strings to get it prioritized =)

Thanks a lot!

Hugs,  
Sandra =)

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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:** [December 27, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-for-kql-support-in-kibana-stack-alert-elasticsearch-query/290381/4 "2021-12-27T19:36:18Z")

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