# What is the difference in aggregating data in Elasticsearch vs Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-difference-in-aggregating-data-in-elasticsearch-vs-kibana/201196>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 26, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-difference-in-aggregating-data-in-elasticsearch-vs-kibana/201196 "2019-09-26T09:31:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![sahishnu.patil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@sahishnu.patil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahishnu.patil)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-difference-in-aggregating-data-in-elasticsearch-vs-kibana/201196/1 "2019-09-26T09:31:02Z")

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Aggregations can be applied at Elasticsearch and at Kibana . What is the difference in aggregating data at these locations ?

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-difference-in-aggregating-data-in-elasticsearch-vs-kibana/201196/2 "2019-09-26T09:35:23Z")

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The Kibana UI calls elasticsearch to do aggregations and then visualizes the JSON it returns.

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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:** [October 24, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-difference-in-aggregating-data-in-elasticsearch-vs-kibana/201196/3 "2019-10-24T09:36:07Z")

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