# TOMCAT can work with Kibana4?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tomcat-can-work-with-kibana4/25571>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 15, 2015, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tomcat-can-work-with-kibana4/25571 "2015-07-15T05:27:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Anmol\_Gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Anmol\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anmol_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tomcat-can-work-with-kibana4/25571/1 "2015-07-15T05:27:24Z")

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Why we use Tomcat with Kibana when it is just a view tool ?? and if we use Kibana with Tomcat then how to use it? please answer soon

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tomcat-can-work-with-kibana4/25571/2 "2015-07-16T05:00:46Z")

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Kibana 4 comes with its own backend, so you don't need to deploy it on Tomcat.

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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 17, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tomcat-can-work-with-kibana4/25571/3 "2015-07-17T05:05:47Z")

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Tomcat is java only, Kibana 4 is nodejs.

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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, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tomcat-can-work-with-kibana4/25571/4 "2017-07-06T14:16:22Z")

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