# Who is client for kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/who-is-client-for-kibana/254309>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 4, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/who-is-client-for-kibana/254309 "2020-11-04T16:47:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/who-is-client-for-kibana/254309/1 "2020-11-04T16:47:48Z")

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![Screenshot 2020-11-04 221220](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/7/17cfda65df57937cc0d67198a33b8ec436915e63.png)  
What is **request** in kibana i mean who requesting the kibana is it the elasticsearch ?  
and kibana is showing 3 connections i open only one kibana in web browser please tell me what it is all these

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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:** [November 6, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/who-is-client-for-kibana/254309/2 "2020-11-06T16:44:11Z")

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Connections are any open requests to the server. When you refresh the page there are possibly tens of hundreds of requests based on what of those assets are cached in your browser, etc.

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**Author:** ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/who-is-client-for-kibana/254309/3 "2020-11-06T17:01:11Z")

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Can you give me some examples

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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:** [November 6, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/who-is-client-for-kibana/254309/4 "2020-11-06T17:20:26Z")

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Sure, here are some of the assets as requested by Kibana. The open connections are any current connections to serve these assets.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/1/71621d84d97a60a1891376d18c4a56a41a0244d9.png)

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**Author:** ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/who-is-client-for-kibana/254309/5 "2020-11-06T17:33:01Z")

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Thank you

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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 4, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/who-is-client-for-kibana/254309/6 "2020-12-04T17:33:09Z")

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