- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- What is Kibana?
- What’s new in 8.12
- Kibana concepts
- Quick start
- Set up
- Install Kibana
- Configure Kibana
- Alerting and action settings
- APM settings
- Banners settings
- Cases settings
- Enterprise Search settings
- Fleet settings
- i18n settings
- Logging settings
- Logs settings
- Metrics settings
- Monitoring settings
- Reporting settings
- Search sessions settings
- Secure settings
- Security settings
- Spaces settings
- Task Manager settings
- Telemetry settings
- URL drilldown settings
- Start and stop Kibana
- Access Kibana
- Securing access to Kibana
- Add data
- Upgrade Kibana
- Configure security
- Configure reporting
- Configure logging
- Configure monitoring
- Command line tools
- Production considerations
- Discover
- Dashboard and visualizations
- Canvas
- Maps
- Build a map to compare metrics by country or region
- Track, visualize, and alert on assets in real time
- Map custom regions with reverse geocoding
- Heat map layer
- Tile layer
- Vector layer
- Plot big data
- Search geographic data
- Configure map settings
- Connect to Elastic Maps Service
- Import geospatial data
- Troubleshoot
- Reporting and sharing
- Machine learning
- Graph
- Alerting
- Observability
- APM
- Set up
- Get started
- How-to guides
- Configure APM agents with central config
- Control access to APM data
- Create an alert
- Create custom links
- Filter data
- Find transaction latency and failure correlations
- Identify deployment details for APM agents
- Integrate with machine learning
- Exploring mobile sessions with Discover
- Viewing sessions with Discover
- Observe Lambda functions
- Query your data
- Storage Explorer
- Track deployments with annotations
- Users and privileges
- Settings
- REST API
- Troubleshooting
- Security
- Dev Tools
- Fleet
- Osquery
- Stack Monitoring
- Stack Management
- REST API
- Get features API
- Kibana spaces APIs
- Kibana role management APIs
- User session management APIs
- Saved objects APIs
- Data views API
- Get all data views
- Get data view
- Create data view
- Update data view
- Delete data view
- Swap references preview
- Swap references
- Get default data view
- Set default data view
- Update data view fields metadata
- Get runtime field
- Create runtime field
- Upsert runtime field
- Update runtime field
- Delete runtime field
- Index patterns APIs
- Alerting APIs
- Action and connector APIs
- Cases APIs
- Add comment
- Create case
- Delete cases
- Delete comments
- Find case activity
- Find cases
- Find connectors
- Get alerts
- Get case activity
- Get case
- Get case status
- Get cases by alert
- Get comments
- Get configuration
- Get reporters
- Get tags
- Push case
- Set configuration
- Update cases
- Update comment
- Update configuration
- Import and export dashboard APIs
- Logstash configuration management APIs
- Machine learning APIs
- Osquery manager API
- Short URLs APIs
- Get Task Manager health
- Upgrade assistant APIs
- Synthetics APIs
- Uptime APIs
- Kibana plugins
- Troubleshooting
- Accessibility
- Release notes
- Kibana 8.12.2
- Kibana 8.12.1
- Kibana 8.12.0
- Kibana 8.11.4
- Kibana 8.11.3
- Kibana 8.11.2
- Kibana 8.11.1
- Kibana 8.11.0
- Kibana 8.10.4
- Kibana 8.10.3
- Kibana 8.10.2
- Kibana 8.10.1
- Kibana 8.10.0
- Kibana 8.9.2
- Kibana 8.9.1
- Kibana 8.9.0
- Kibana 8.8.2
- Kibana 8.8.1
- Kibana 8.8.0
- Kibana 8.7.1
- Kibana 8.7.0
- Kibana 8.6.1
- Kibana 8.6.0
- Kibana 8.5.2
- Kibana 8.5.1
- Kibana 8.5.0
- Kibana 8.4.3
- Kibana 8.4.2
- Kibana 8.4.1
- Kibana 8.4.0
- Kibana 8.3.3
- Kibana 8.3.2
- Kibana 8.3.1
- Kibana 8.3.0
- Kibana 8.2.3
- Kibana 8.2.2
- Kibana 8.2.1
- Kibana 8.2.0
- Kibana 8.1.3
- Kibana 8.1.2
- Kibana 8.1.1
- Kibana 8.1.0
- Kibana 8.0.0
- Kibana 8.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 8.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 8.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 8.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 8.0.0-alpha1
- Developer guide
Tags
editTags
editUse tags to categorize your saved objects, then filter for related objects based on shared tags.
To get started, open the main menu, and then click Stack Management > Tags.
Required permissions
editTo create tags, you must meet the minimum requirements.
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Access to Tags requires the
Tag Management
Kibana privilege. To add the privilege, open the main menu, and then click Stack Management > Roles. -
The
read
privilege allows you to assign tags to the saved objects for which you have write permission. -
The
write
privilege enables you to create, edit, and delete tags.
Having the Tag Management
Kibana privilege is not required to
view tags assigned on objects you have read
access to, or to filter objects by tags
from the global search.
Create a tag
editCreate a tag to assign to your saved objects.
- Click Create tag.
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Enter a name and select a color for the new tag.
The name cannot be longer than 50 characters.
- Click Create tag.
Assign a tag to an object
editTo assign and remove tags, you must have write
permission
on the objects to which you assign the tags.
- Find the tag you want to assign.
- Click the actions icon , and then select Manage assignments.
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Select the objects to which you want to assign or remove tags.
- Click Save tag assignments.
Delete a tag
editWhen you delete a tag, you remove it from all saved objects that use it.
- Click the actions icon , and then select Delete.
- Click Delete tag.
To assign, delete, or clear multiple tags, select them in the Tags view, and then select the action from the selected tags menu.