# What is the easiest way to download an extremely large data amount of data from kibana?

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 2, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-easiest-way-to-download-an-extremely-large-data-amount-of-data-from-kibana/175006 "2019-04-02T13:34:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matt3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Matt3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matt3)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-easiest-way-to-download-an-extremely-large-data-amount-of-data-from-kibana/175006/1 "2019-04-02T13:34:41Z")

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I have a lot of data I need a copy of thats currently stored in Kibana. As far as I know all of the data stored in indicies on the machine is in an unreadable format so I cannot simply copy the files. I tried generating a csv that I could download. The files ended up being too big even after I changed the size limit and query timeout limit. I am on kibana 6.5.1 and in a time crunch thanks for the help let me know if you need any more information from me.

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-easiest-way-to-download-an-extremely-large-data-amount-of-data-from-kibana/175006/2 "2019-04-03T01:25:10Z")

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I assume you're referring to the Elasticsearch data your accessing from within Kibana. If that is the case, there are a few ways:

- Export the data problematically yourself using the [Scroll API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-scroll.html).
- Use software/plugins which already implement this API - one example of this is the [elasticsearch-dump](https://github.com/taskrabbit/elasticsearch-dump) project.
- Starting with X-Pack in 6.0 you can export CSV data within reporting in Kibana however this there is a limit to the size of these reports. If your looking to download more than 1G or so, this probably isn't the best option at this time.

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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:** [May 1, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-easiest-way-to-download-an-extremely-large-data-amount-of-data-from-kibana/175006/3 "2019-05-01T01:25:15Z")

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