# Query Elasticsearch from kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [May 2, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-elasticsearch-from-kibana/84331 "2017-05-02T22:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drissi\_Yazami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Drissi\_Yazami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Drissi_Yazami)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-elasticsearch-from-kibana/84331/1 "2017-05-02T22:23:26Z")
what I want to do is to query Elasticsearch from kibana in a SQL'ish manner and in the same time create dynamically a suitable visualisation for the search returned by elasticsearch, can anyone please guide me through this process ---
**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:** [May 3, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-elasticsearch-from-kibana/84331/2 "2017-05-03T05:34:52Z")
There's no SQLish functionality at this stage. ---
**Author:** ![Drissi\_Yazami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Drissi\_Yazami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Drissi_Yazami)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-elasticsearch-from-kibana/84331/3 "2017-05-03T16:01:38Z")
I have found an elasticsearch plugin that can query the database as a relational one , I wonder if we can develop a kibana plugin that calls under the hood this elasticsearch plugin ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-elasticsearch-from-kibana/84331/4 "2017-05-31T16:15:28Z")
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