# Provide additional data (static metadata) to Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-additional-data-static-metadata-to-kibana/55380>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 13, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-additional-data-static-metadata-to-kibana/55380 "2016-07-13T07:50:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![samatthias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@samatthias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samatthias)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-additional-data-static-metadata-to-kibana/55380/1 "2016-07-13T07:50:27Z")

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Hi Everyone

I’m on the way to unleash all kind of features in Kibana 4.x. During playing arround with Kibana and Elasticsearch I asked my self how can I add a kind of “additional static data – kind of metadata” which is not stored (provided outside) in EL, the best way.

Let’s assume we have some documents about cars in an EL index like that:  
[…]  
"\_source": {  
"carID": "21548",  
"timeToProduce": "49:39:00",  
“totalCountOfParts”:”8387”,  
“weight”:”1349”,  
“color”:”38”,  
etc.  
[…]

Let’s assume we have a kind of CSV / XML / or whatever file that provide us more information about the car i.E. an descriptive name and some other additional data:

“carID”,”Name”,”NumberOfSeats”  
"21548",”VW A4”,”4”  
"21548",”Mustang V”,”2”

“colorID”,”Name”  
“38”,”yellow”  
“39”,”green”

1. Can I translate the “carID” and the “colorID” in Kibana on the fly?
2. Can I provide some additional data like the “NumberofSeats” to Kibana as a selection creteria?
3. Is Q1 and Q2 even possible? If not: What kind of alternatives there are in the EL and Kibana stack?

Thanks for answer my questions.

Best regards  
Matt

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**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:** [July 13, 2016, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-additional-data-static-metadata-to-kibana/55380/2 "2016-07-13T08:24:13Z")

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1. No
2. You can put that into a search/filter.
3. Best to do the data enrichment at indexing time.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provide-additional-data-static-metadata-to-kibana/55380/3 "2017-07-06T13:46:59Z")

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