Elastic 6.4.2: Query as variable in link url

Grafana Elasticsearch
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Hello all,

I have a dashboard with multi queries (Elasticsearch as source), each queries is a different request to my Kibana

Queries:

A) message:“ERROR”
B) hostname=test
C) message:“Down”

etc

In visualization I added a data links to my kibana, so the user can click to switch to the Kibana/elasticsearch website and see what exactly happened when an alert occurs

Unfortunately I found no way to pass the query as variable

http://kibana.local/xxxx?QUERYxxx (where query is the value of A,B,C …)

Beyond my usage, I think this can be very useful to pass the query as request to another site

For example also for ticketing purpose, eg with Prometheus as source

http://ticketing.local/create-ticket.php?probe_success{instance=“toto.com”}?..

When it’s necessary the operator click on his panel and generates a ticket with predefined value (time, node, etc, and also the query who generated an alert)

Thank you

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IMHO pass query as a parameter is a bad idea. It allows remote query execution which implies a lot of security concerns and AFAIK Grafana does not support it.

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Thank you for the answer, the execution is from browser so there is no more/less specific rights for kibana.
The link is only a kibana construction but the user can do exactly the same, It allows nothing more

About usage, the user can see the alerts, can switch to kibana with a link, but, and this is a pity, must manually writes the query (sometimes very complex) to find the previous alert

I’m very surprised nobody uses Grafana like this ?

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