# Queries for dashboards? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 8, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/queries-for-dashboards/22574 "2015-03-08T23:36:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scott\_Chapman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/scott_chapman/32/108983_2.png) [@Scott\_Chapman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Scott_Chapman)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/queries-for-dashboards/22574/1 "2015-03-08T23:36:40Z")
I've been a user of Kibana 3 for a while and just started my transition to Kibana 4, and for the most part it is really awesome. But I have one conceptual issue that perhaps I am just not understanding... Why don't dashboards have queries like visualizations do? It makes sense that visualizations can either leverage an existing query or start with no query. But I just don't get why I can;t do the same thing with dashboards? For example, I would like to have a number of general visualizations (log level, top terms, histogram, query results) that I would just be able to include in a number of different dashboards, but would all be driven by different queries. What's the right approach here? Thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/15362b40-2a21-4286-ac51-b8a07cbaa968%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/15362b40-2a21-4286-ac51-b8a07cbaa968%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/queries-for-dashboards/22574/2 "2017-07-06T00:27:50Z")