# Where exactly my searches gets stored at the backend

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-exactly-my-searches-gets-stored-at-the-backend/34489>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 13, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-exactly-my-searches-gets-stored-at-the-backend/34489 "2015-11-13T06:37:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![nivetha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@nivetha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nivetha)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-exactly-my-searches-gets-stored-at-the-backend/34489/1 "2015-11-13T06:37:10Z")

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Hi  
I have created searches in Kibana. I wanted to know where exactly these searches gets stored at the backend(in kibana and elasticsearch).Can I change the path of this stored loaction?Is it possible?.Any links regarding this will be more helpful.  
Can anyone help me at this.  
I find the below details.  
{  
"\_index": ".kibana",  
"\_type": "visualization",  
"\_id": "Record-Requests"  
"\_score": 1,  
"\_source": {  
"title": "Recording Requests",  
"visState": "{"type":"line","params":{"shareYAxis":true,"addTooltip":true,"addLegend":true,"showCircles":true,"smoothLines":false,"interpolate":"linear","scale":"linear","drawLinesBetweenPoints":true,"radiusRatio":9,"times":[],"addTimeMarker":false,"defaultYExtents":false,"setYExtents":false,"yAxis":{}},"aggs":[{"id":"1","type":"count","schema":"metric","params":{}},{"id":"2","type":"date\_histogram","schema":"segment","params":{"field":"@timestamp","interval":"auto","customInterval":"2h","min\_doc\_count":1,"extended\_bounds":{}}}],"listeners":{}}",  
"description": "",  
"version": 1,  
"kibanaSavedObjectMeta": {  
"searchSourceJSON": "{"index":"summary","query":{"query\_string":{"query":"\*","analyze\_wildcard":true}},"filter":[]}"  
}  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-exactly-my-searches-gets-stored-at-the-backend/34489/2 "2015-11-13T06:39:23Z")

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As the `_index` field indicates, the Kibana state is stored in the .kibana index in Elasticsearch. That index is treated like any other index.

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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, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-exactly-my-searches-gets-stored-at-the-backend/34489/3 "2017-07-06T14:09:11Z")

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