Kibana is a highly customizable dashboarding and visualization platform that allows users to perform flexible analytics and visualization of real-time streaming data through an intuitive interface. It allows users to easily create various chart types like bar charts, line plots, scatter plots, histograms, and pie charts to better understand large volumes of data. Some of its key features include customizable dashboards with components like time pickers, queries, filters, charts and tables for sharing and embedding insights.

1. Kibana

2. Can you check the errors between 12.02 and
12.04 yesterday?

3. Can you check the errors between 12.02 and
12.04 last Friday?
…. Are you kidding me?

4. Pretty frustrating, huh?

6. Sad.

7. What is Kibana?

9. Kibana
• It is highly customizable dashboarding
• It is constituted of panels:
• Time picker / Query / Filtering
• Charts / Table / Text

10. Flexible analytics and visualization platform
Real-time summary and charting of streaming
data
Intuitive interface for a variety of users
Instant sharing and embedding of dashboards

11. To better understand large volumes of data..
• easily create bar charts
• line and scatter plots
• Histograms
• pie charts
• maps.

12. To better understand large volumes of data..
• easily create bar charts
• line and scatter plots
• Histograms
• pie charts
• maps.

13. Kibana DataViz Types

14. Default Chart Types
Chart Type Basis Values Types Purpose
Histogram Timestamp based Count, Mean, Total Barlines, stacks,
percentages
Queries
Table Paging Fields list Highlighting, sorting Fine grained
analysis
Pie Charts Terms Missing terms, other Doughnut, legends,
tables
Proportion

17. Customising Kibana Chart Types