Kibana does everything via the Elasticsearch APIs. You might want to have a poke around the docs - http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html
Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 2 October 2014 08:43, Petr Lazecky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have following question for you. > > Let's say that I would like to use alternative reporting tool to display > aggregated data and documents from Elasticsearch instead of Kibana. There > is nothing wrong with Kibana as such but alternative tool may have > additional features that I may found useful; KPI and treshold management, > notifications when particular KPI values are reached, ability to provide > rich visualizations (Tableau) etc. To be concreate, I would like to consume > Elasticsearch results from Kibana and Pentaho also. I have found that there > may be some Pentaho Kettle job to extract data from Elasticseach but due to > very limited information use case for this is really not clear. > > I have found that Elasticsearch supports snapshots and repositories which > may be what I am looking for but I am not sure if these data structures are > consumable by other tools even using ETL engine. > > One particular use case I have in mind is to take Elasticsearch snapshot > and tranform it using ETL to star schema into traditional OLAP database > from which I can make regular OLAP drilldown/ data slicing queries. > Scenario I have in mind is to use Elasticsearch platform for live, > most-up-to-date analytical queries while I can use durable storage as > back-up or archive of Elasticsearch documents. Such archive can be used for > offline reporting. > > Technically it boils down to the question what data formats are passed > between Elasticsearch and Kibana and hwether there are APIs exposed to > consume this format from other reporting tools (or ETL engines that can > consume it and store it on traditional relational DB). > > I would appreciate any help, direction or comments to this idea. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/f7dc85eb-70ad-4468-9210-6fa770cb73a5%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/f7dc85eb-70ad-4468-9210-6fa770cb73a5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Zt7bA6gY35CXHQqyix5KdvkP7rPuBJ5gNqm7MVtf3VbQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
