kibana
Your window into all of your data
Kibana is an open-source web dashboard for Elasticsearch that lets you explore, query, and visualize your data through charts and dashboards without writing code for every query, part of the Elastic Stack.
Kibana is an open-source web interface for querying, analyzing, visualizing, and managing data stored in Elasticsearch. It is part of the Elastic Stack and serves as the visual front-end that lets you explore your data through dashboards, metrics, and visualizations without writing code for every query.
You can use Kibana either by downloading a release and running it yourself, or through Elastic's hosted cloud service. The version of Kibana you run must closely match your Elasticsearch version — if the major version numbers differ, Kibana will refuse to start. A mismatch in minor or patch versions will generate a warning but still run. The project is written in TypeScript and covers observability use cases. Full documentation is available at elastic.co, and community support is available through the Kibana Discuss Forum.
Where it fits
- Build dashboards to monitor application logs and spot errors without writing raw database queries.
- Connect Kibana to your Elasticsearch cluster to filter and explore large datasets through a visual interface.
- Set up observability dashboards to track system metrics, performance, and uptime across your infrastructure.