# 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, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/you-should-be-able-to-use-the-saved-searches-in-kibana-to-do-direct-queries-to-es/138803/4 "2018-07-06T01:40:50Z")

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Here is yet another thread requesting the same functionality: [Executing kibana saved searches programatically?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-kibana-saved-searches-programatically/52410/2)

This one was ignored after the initial reply

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