# Push data into Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/push-data-into-kibana/81589>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 7, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/push-data-into-kibana/81589 "2017-04-07T09:18:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kagelmacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@Kagelmacher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kagelmacher)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/push-data-into-kibana/81589/1 "2017-04-07T09:18:21Z")

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Hello,

Actually i developed a medical application with a backend in rails. I use postgresql for the storage. I would like to use Kibana to make "some datamining" . But i don't know what is the best way to send the data from my backend to kibana. Should I go through to ElasticSearch to feed Kibana (and what is the best way to do it ? ) or Kibana could call a service from my rails backend ?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/push-data-into-kibana/81589/2 "2017-04-07T10:22:20Z")

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Kibana works on data indexed in Elasticsearch, so you must index your data into Elasticsearch from the backend.

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**Author:** ![Kagelmacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@Kagelmacher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kagelmacher)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/push-data-into-kibana/81589/3 "2017-04-07T12:17:37Z")

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Ok thanks. Do you know a gem to push data into Elasticsearch in an easy way ?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/push-data-into-kibana/81589/4 "2017-04-07T13:10:30Z")

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I am not a Rails developer, but suspect you may want to have a look at the [elasticsearch-ruby client](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-ruby) and/or [elasticsearch-rails](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-rails).

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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:** [May 5, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/push-data-into-kibana/81589/5 "2017-05-05T13:14:10Z")

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