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Building Your Own Beat Dashboards
editBuilding Your Own Beat Dashboards
editFor visualizing the dashboards of a Beat in Kibana you need to have configured:
- the Beat index pattern, which specifies how Kibana should display the Beat fields
- the Beat dashboards, including the dependencies such as visualizations and searches
For the Elastic Beats, the index pattern is available in the GitHub repository of each Beat under
etc/kibana/index-pattern
or under the beats-dashboards
zip archive, available for each Beat release.
For the community Beats, you can easily generate the index-pattern from the etc/fields.yml
file. For more details
check the generate index pattern section.
If you would like to build dashboards from scratch for any Elastic Beats, you can start by importing the same version of the index pattern as your Beat:
$ scripts/import_dashboards -only-index
After creating your own dashboards in Kibana, you can export the Kibana dashboards to a local directory, and then archive the dashboards in order to be able to share the dashboards with the community.