Create a dashboard
editCreate a dashboard
edit- Open the Dashboards page in Kibana.
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Select Create dashboard to start with an empty dashboard.
When you create a dashboard, you are automatically in edit mode and can make changes to the dashboard.
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Add content to the dashboard. You have several options covered in more detail in the Visualizations section:
- Create visualization. This option is a shortcut to create a chart using Lens, the default visualization editor in Kibana.
- Add panel. Choose one of the available panels to add and configure content to your dashboard.
- Add from library. Select existing content that has already been configured and saved to the Visualize Library.
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Controls. Add controls to help filter the content of your dashboard.
- Organize your dashboard by organizing the various panels.
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Define the main settings of your dashboard from the Settings menu located in the toolbar.
- A meaningful title, description, and tags allow you to find the dashboard quickly later when browsing your list of dashboards or using the Kibana search bar.
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Additional display options allow you unify the look and feel of the dashboard’s panels:
- Store time with dashboard — Saves the specified time filter.
- Use margins between panels — Adds a margin of space between each panel.
- Show panel titles — Displays the titles in the panel headers.
- Sync color palettes across panels — Applies the same color palette to all panels on the dashboard.
- Sync cursor across panels — When you hover your cursor over a time series chart or a heatmap, the cursor on all other related dashboard charts automatically appears.
- Sync tooltips across panels — When you hover your cursor over a Lens chart, the tooltips on all other related dashboard charts automatically appear.
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Click Apply.
- Click Save to save the dashboard.