Kibana completes the data visualization of the ELK stack. This tool is used to visualize Elasticsearch documents and help developers quickly understand it. The Kibana dashboard provides a variety of interactive charts, geospatial data, and graphs to visualize complex queries. It can be used to search, view, and interact with data stored in the Elasticsearch directory. Kibana can help you perform advanced data analysis and visualize your data in various tables, charts, and maps. In Kibana, there are multiple ways to perform searches on your data. The following section shows a collection of Kibana objects like Kibana dashboards, visualizations and more.


Kibana Dashboards examples

Elastic Cloud Billing data collection and Kibana dashboard

Pulls Elastic Cloud Billing information from the Billing API then sends it to an Elasticsearch cluster and visualizes the results in Kibana dashboards.

Vega Scatterplot Kibana visualization

A scatterplot visualization made with Vega Lite for Kibana

Cloudflare Kibana dashboards

Cloudflare dashboards and ingest pipelines to visualize cloudflare logs

Threat detection Kibana dashboard

Kibana dashboard example visualizing the results of the Elastic SIEM detection engine

Vega advanced heat map

Vega example to show GitHub commits per author per hour of day.

osquery performance dashboard

Kibana Dashboard example to visualize osquery performance

Filebeat Suricata Canvas dashboard

A Kibana Canvas dashboard example that visualizes suricata logs collected with Filebeat.

Filebeat Log analysis canvas example

This is a simple canvas dashboard example that analyzes logs created by Filebeat.

Office display canvas example

Kibana canvas example showing an office screen with weather, news and stock information


More about Kibana Dashboards

With Kibana dashboards you can fulfill many different use cases like

  • Powerful front-end dashboarding which is capable of visualizing indexed information from the elastic cluster
  • Enables real-time search of indexed information and up to peta byte scale
  • You can search, view, and interact with data stored in Elasticsearch
  • Execute queries on data & visualize results in charts, tables, and maps
  • Configurable dashboard to slice and dice logstash logs in elasticsearch
  • Capable of providing historical data in the form of graphs, charts, etc.
  • Real-time dashboards which is easily configurable
  • Kibana ElasticSearch enables real-time search of indexed information

Using e.g. Kibana Canvas dashboards makes it easy to visualize any kind of information in seconds.