# Retrieve elasticsearch.hosts from Kibana config in plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-elasticsearch-hosts-from-kibana-config-in-plugin/202152>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-elasticsearch-hosts-from-kibana-config-in-plugin/202152 "2019-10-03T11:00:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrieve-elasticsearch-hosts-from-kibana-config-in-plugin/202152/2 "2019-10-03T17:27:06Z")

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You can get any value from the kibana config by accessing `server.config().get('{config.key}')`, so to get elasticsearch.hosts you can use

```auto
server.config().get('elasticsearch.hosts')

```

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