Microsoft Excel

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:

ODBC as data source

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:

Choose a DSN

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:

Pick table to load

Now click the Load button, which will have Excel load all the data from the table into a spreadsheet:

Data loaded in spreadsheet