Kibana—your window into Elastic

Kibana enables you to give shape to your data and navigate the Elastic Stack. With Kibana, you can:

Kibana is for administrators, analysts, and business users. As an admin, your role is to manage the Elastic Stack, from creating your deployment to getting Elasticsearch data into Kibana, and then managing the data. As an analyst, you’re looking to discover insights in the data, visualize your data on dashboards, and share your findings. As a business user, you want to view existing dashboards and drill down into details.

Kibana works with all types of data. Your data can be structured or unstructured text, numerical data, time series data, geospatial data, logs, metrics, security events, and more. No matter your data, Kibana can help you uncover patterns and relationships and visualize the results.

Being able to search, observe, and protect your data is a requirement for any analyst. Kibana provides solutions for each of these use cases.

With Kibana Analytics, you can quickly search through large amounts of data, explore fields and values, and then use the drag-and-drop interface to rapidly build charts, tables, metrics, and more.

Kibana helps you perform your data management tasks from the convenience of a UI. You can:

For a full list of data management UIs, refer to Stack Management.

Detecting and acting on significant shifts and signals in your data is a need that exists in almost every use case. Alerting allows you to detect conditions in different Kibana apps and trigger actions when those conditions are met. For example, you might trigger an alert when a shift occurs in your business critical KPIs or when memory, CPU, or disk space take a dip. When the alert triggers, you can send a notification to a system that is part of your daily workflow: email, Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and other third party integrations.

A dedicated view for creating, searching, and editing rules is in Rules.

You might be managing tens, hundreds, or even thousands of dashboards, visualizations, and other Kibana assets. Kibana has several features for keeping your content organized.

Kibana provides spaces for organizing your visualizations, dashboards, data views, and more. Think of a space as its own mini Kibana installation—it’s isolated from all other spaces, so you can tailor it to your specific needs without impacting others.

Tags are keywords or labels that you assign to saved objects, such as dashboards and visualizations, so you can classify them in a way that is meaningful to you. For example, if you tag objects with “design”, you can search and filter on the tag to see all related objects. Tags are also good for grouping content into categories within a space.

Don’t worry if you have hundreds of dashboards that need to be tagged. Use Tags in Stack Management to create your tags, then assign and delete them in bulk operations.

Kibana offers a range of security features for you to control who has access to what. Security is enabled automatically when you enroll Kibana with a secured Elasticsearch cluster. For a description of all available configuration options, refer to Security settings in Kibana.

Kibana supports several authentication providers, allowing you to login using Elasticsearch’s built-in realms, or with your own single sign-on provider.

Kibana provides roles and privileges for controlling which users can view and manage Kibana features. Privileges grant permission to view an application or perform a specific action and are assigned to roles. Roles allow you to describe a “template” of capabilities that you can grant to many users, without having to redefine what each user should be able to do.

When you create a role, you can scope the assigned Kibana privileges to specific spaces. This makes it possible to grant users different access levels in different spaces, or even give users their very own private space. For example, power users might have privileges to create and edit visualizations and dashboards, while analysts or executives might have Dashboard and Canvas with read-only privileges.

Kibana’s role management interface allows you to describe these various access levels, or you can automate role creation via our API.

Once you have your users and roles configured, you might want to maintain a record of who did what, when. The Kibana audit log will record this information for you, which can then be correlated with Elasticsearch audit logs to gain more insights into your users’ behavior. For more information, see Kibana audit logging.

To quickly find apps and the objects you create, use the search field in the global header. Search suggestions include deep links into applications, allowing you to directly navigate to the views you need most.

You can search for objects by type, name, and tag. To get the most from the search feature, follow these tips:

This example searches for visualizations with the tag design .

To view the full list of apps and features, go to Kibana features.

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