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Kibana Vega visualization examples

Kibana Vega visualization examples help users build custom charts that are not available as standard Kibana panels. Vega and Vega-Lite provide a grammar-of-graphics approach for advanced visual analysis.

Use Vega when you need custom marks, compound charts, advanced maps, gauges, specialized interactions, or visual layouts that Lens cannot express. Vega is powerful, but it requires careful review of queries, signals, and data transforms.

To add a Vega visualization, open Kibana Visualize or the dashboard editor, create a Vega panel, paste the spec, and adjust index names, filters, and time fields. Always test the query cost before placing a Vega panel on a busy dashboard.

Related resources include Kibana dashboards, Kibana Canvas examples, the Vega documentation, and the official Kibana Vega guide.

Vega panels can do more than standard visualizations, but they also need more care. Review the Elasticsearch query, transforms, scales, and marks before reuse. Keep specs documented so another dashboard owner can maintain them. If a standard Lens panel can solve the same problem, use Vega only when the extra control is worth the complexity.

When you publish a Vega example, include a short note about the expected index and time field. That context helps users adapt the visualization without reverse engineering the whole specification.

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What you can do with Vega downloads

Vega downloads help Elastic users start faster with reusable Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and examples that can be imported, inspected, and adapted to real Elasticsearch data.

How should I use these examples?

Download the content, import it into your Elastic environment, review the saved objects or rules, and adapt the fields, filters, and visualizations to your own data.

Where should I go next?

Use the related collections below to move between dashboards, security content, observability examples, pipelines, Elasticsearch resources, and AI-assisted Elastic workflows.

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