Kibana is a

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dashboard

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for

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, whose

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successor in

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is OpenSearch Dashboards.

History

It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster. Users can create

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, line and scatter plots, or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data. Kibana also provides a presentation tool, referred to as Canvas, that allows users to create slide decks that pull live data directly from Elasticsearch. The combination of Elasticsearch,

Logstash Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is dual- ...

, and Kibana, referred to as the "Elastic Stack" (formerly the "ELK stack"), is available as a product or service. Logstash provides an input stream to Elasticsearch for storage and search, and Kibana accesses the data for visualizations such as dashboards. Elastic also provides "Beats" packages which can be configured to provide pre-made Kibana visualizations and dashboards about various database and application technologies. In December 2019, Elastic introduced Kibana Lens product. In May 2021,

released the first beta of OpenSearch Dashboards, the Apache-licensed fork of Kibana sponsored by

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after Elastic discontinued the open source project and switched to

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development.

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