# What is the equivalent to a lookup table in Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-a-lookup-table-in-kibana/109151>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 27, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-a-lookup-table-in-kibana/109151 "2017-11-27T00:35:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![thelonestargeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@thelonestargeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thelonestargeek)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-a-lookup-table-in-kibana/109151/1 "2017-11-27T00:35:52Z")

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I have a lot of experience with Splunk and I am trying to understand the equivalent concepts in ELK. Is there a lookup table option/ concept (similar to: [http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/Knowledge/Addfieldsfromexternaldatasources](http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/Knowledge/Addfieldsfromexternaldatasources)) where you can load CSV or other files and create an index to compare existing data against?

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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:** [November 27, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-a-lookup-table-in-kibana/109151/2 "2017-11-27T00:37:34Z")

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Not in the Elastic Stack, you do that upfront instead, which makes querying faster.

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**Author:** ![thelonestargeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@thelonestargeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thelonestargeek)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-a-lookup-table-in-kibana/109151/3 "2017-11-27T00:54:25Z")

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What's the best way to import a CSV file with data?

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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:** [November 27, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-a-lookup-table-in-kibana/109151/4 "2017-11-27T03:22:22Z")

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At this stage it's Logstash with the CSV filter.

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**Author:** ![thelonestargeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@thelonestargeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thelonestargeek)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-a-lookup-table-in-kibana/109151/5 "2017-11-28T21:26:34Z")

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Do you have a link or reference on how this could be set up?

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-a-lookup-table-in-kibana/109151/6 "2017-11-28T23:28:33Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-csv.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-csv.html) hope this helps!

Thanks  
Rashmi

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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:** [December 26, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-equivalent-to-a-lookup-table-in-kibana/109151/7 "2017-12-26T23:29:19Z")

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