About Kibana
Kibana is the web interface for Elasticsearch. It lets you search, chart, map and alert on the data stored there.
What it does
Kibana gives you one interface for querying data in real time, building dashboards and running analysis. Visualizations include charts, maps and tables. Machine learning features find anomalies and rare events without writing code. Alert rules can trigger actions and workflows when data meets a condition. Built-in help can turn natural language into queries.
Key features
- Search and explore data with filters and autocomplete
- Dashboards with charts, maps and tables
- No-code anomaly detection with machine learning
- Alert rules that trigger workflows
- Natural language help for building queries
Who it's for
Operations, analytics and security teams that already keep their data in Elasticsearch. Developers who want a visual front end for log and search data will also find it useful.
Pricing and good to know
The page describes Kibana as open source, and the Elastic platform offers a free trial. Kibana needs an Elasticsearch cluster to work with, so it is not a standalone tool. Plans for the hosted Elastic service are listed on its site, and the features you can use depend on the deployment you choose.
Highlights
- Search data with filters and autocomplete
- Build dashboards with charts, maps and tables
- Detect anomalies with machine learning
- Set alert rules that trigger workflows
- Write queries from natural language
