- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
- What’s new in 7.8
- Get started
- Set up Kibana
- Discover
- Dashboard
- Canvas
- Maps
- Machine learning
- Graph
- Visualize
- Logs
- Metrics
- APM
- Uptime
- SIEM
- Dev Tools
- Stack Monitoring
- Management
- Advanced Settings
- Alerts and Actions
- Beats Central Management
- Cross-Cluster Replication
- Index Lifecycle Policies
- Index Management
- Ingest Node Pipelines
- Index patterns and fields
- License Management
- Numeral Formatting
- Remote Clusters
- Rollup Jobs
- Saved Objects
- Security
- Snapshot and Restore
- Spaces
- Upgrade Assistant
- Watcher
- Ingest Manager
- Reporting
- Alerting and Actions
- REST API
- Kibana plugins
- Accessibility
- Limitations
- Breaking Changes
- Release Notes
- Kibana 7.8.1
- Kibana 7.8.0
- Kibana 7.7.1
- Kibana 7.7.0
- Kibana 7.6.2
- Kibana 7.6.1
- Kibana 7.6.0
- Kibana 7.5.2
- Kibana 7.5.1
- Kibana 7.5.0
- Kibana 7.4.2
- Kibana 7.4.1
- Kibana 7.4.0
- Kibana 7.3.2
- Kibana 7.3.1
- Kibana 7.3.0
- Kibana 7.2.1
- Kibana 7.2.0
- Kibana 7.1.1
- Kibana 7.1.0
- Kibana 7.0.1
- Kibana 7.0.0
- Kibana 7.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 7.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 7.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 7.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 7.0.0-alpha1
- Developer guide
Get started with Maps
editGet started with Maps
editYou work with Maps by adding layers. The data for a layer can come from sources such as Elasticsearch documents, vector sources, tile map services, web map services, and more. You can symbolize the data in different ways. For example, you might show which airports have the longest flight delays by using circles from small to big. Or, you might show the amount of web log traffic by shading countries from light to dark.

If you have insufficient privileges to create or save maps, a read-only icon appears in the application header. The buttons to create new maps or edit existing maps won’t be visible. For more information on granting access to Kibana see Granting access to Kibana.

Prerequisites
editBefore you start this tutorial, add the web logs sample data set. Each sample data set includes a map to go along with the data. Once you’ve added the data, open Maps and explore the different layers of the [Logs] Total Requests and Bytes map. You’ll re-create this map in this tutorial.
Take-away skills
editIn this tutorial, you’ll learn to:
- Create a multi-layer map
- Connect a layer to a data source
- Use symbols, colors, and labels to style a layer
- Create layers for Elasticsearch data
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