# What visualization touches a specific index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-visualization-touches-a-specific-index/100903>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 18, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-visualization-touches-a-specific-index/100903 "2017-09-18T16:51:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jspeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jspeer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jspeer)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-visualization-touches-a-specific-index/100903/1 "2017-09-18T16:51:30Z")

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I'm updating logstash filters, that will make large changes to the index. I would like to see what visualizations are reading from this index before pushing the change. Is there a way to find a visualization to index corellation?

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**Author:** ![pranav0091](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cab0a1/32.png) [@pranav0091](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pranav0091)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-visualization-touches-a-specific-index/100903/2 "2017-09-18T17:56:56Z")

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One way is to search for the index names (manually using any text editor) in the .json that you obtain from Administration \> Saved Objects \> Visualizations \> Export Everything

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**Author:** ![jspeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jspeer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jspeer)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-visualization-touches-a-specific-index/100903/3 "2017-09-18T18:00:13Z")

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That works great, thanks!

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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 16, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-visualization-touches-a-specific-index/100903/4 "2017-10-16T18:01:01Z")

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