Kibana Guide

Kibana is an open-source product from Elastic. It provides an ergonomic, modular and responsive web interface to search, gather, filter and print data from an Elasticsearch.

For PunchPlatform end-users, it provides the central web portal to search, visualize the data in real time, and to design new and additional dashboards.

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A rich online documentation of Kibana is available on the Elastic website!

For clarity this guide assumes your goal is to end up designing a new dashboard to visualize interesting data.

Kibana has three main user tabs to search and visualize the data: The right process to create dashboards is to proceed in that order.

An additional tab: is also available. These tabs appear at the top of the Kibana4 view.