Microsoft Exceledit
This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
You can use the Elasticsearch ODBC driver to access Elasticsearch data from Microsoft Excel.
Prerequisitesedit
- Microsoft Office 2016 or higher
- Elasticsearch SQL ODBC driver
- A preconfigured User or System DSN (see Configuration section on how to configure a DSN).
Load data into a spreadsheetedit
First, you’ll need to choose ODBC as the source to load data from. To do so, click on the Data tab, then New Query button, in the drop-down menu expand From Other Sources, then choose From ODBC:
This will open a new window with a drop down menu populated with the DSNs that Excel found on the system. Choose a DSN configured to connect to your Elasticsearch instance and press the OK button:
This will lead to a new window, allowing the user to input the connection credentials.
A username might be required by Excel even if the Elasticsearch instance has no security enabled. Providing a bogus username with no password in this case will not hinder the connectivity. Note however that Excel will cache these credentials (so in case you do have security enabled, you won’t be prompted for the credentials a second time).
Fill in the username and the password and press Connect.
Provide connection credentials
Once connected, Excel will read Elasticsearch’s catalog and offer the user a choice of tables (indices) to load data from. Clicking on one of the tables will load a preview of the data within:
Now click the Load button, which will have Excel load all the data from the table into a spreadsheet:
