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Adding panels
editAdding panels
editFor now we’ll focus on the green button in the row controls. Give it a try. You can also click the grey button labeled Add panel to empty row, but it’s grey, and what fun is that?
Let’s add a terms panel. The terms panel allows us to make use of the Elasticsearch terms facet to find the most popular values in a field.
As you can see, the terms panel has a number of optional settings, however we’ll focus on the general settings in the first section for now:
- Title: The name for this panel
- Span: The width of the panel. Kibana dashboards are made of 12 equally sized spans. Panels can be up to 12 spans wide. Rows can contain more than a total of 12, with new panels wrapping to the next line. Leave this at 4 for now.
- Editable: If this panel is configurable later. Leave this checked for now.
- Inspectable: If the user can view the query used for this panel. Also leave this checked for now.
- Click Save to add your new terms panel to your dashboard
Great! Now you have a panel! You may recognize this breakdown of data
from the pie chart in Using Kibana for the first time. The shakespeare data set is comprised largely of lines of
speech, with a few markers between acts and scenes thrown in there.