# Getting data points

There are two ways to retrieve data points from Kligo. 

* We expose a REST server locally on the practitioner's computer. Data points can be fetched from this server in the same manner it can be fetched from a web service.
* Alongside the REST server, you can connect to a socket. This socket will dispatch data points synchronously. Whenever a data point is created on Kligo an event is fired on the socket containing the datapoint.

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