# You should be able to use the saved searches in .kibana to do direct queries to ES

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/you-should-be-able-to-use-the-saved-searches-in-kibana-to-do-direct-queries-to-es/138803>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 5, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/you-should-be-able-to-use-the-saved-searches-in-kibana-to-do-direct-queries-to-es/138803 "2018-07-05T22:46:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThickFreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@ThickFreeze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ThickFreeze)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/you-should-be-able-to-use-the-saved-searches-in-kibana-to-do-direct-queries-to-es/138803/3 "2018-07-06T01:39:40Z")

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Here is another thread requesting the same feature: this one's response didn't even attempt to help the user, at least the one in the last reply explained how to do it with the current kibana implementation. [How to execute save search from REST API in elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-execute-save-search-from-rest-api-in-elasticsearch/96671)

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