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Setting Advanced Options

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Setting Advanced Options

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The Advanced Settings page enables you to directly edit settings that control the behavior of the Kibana application. For example, you can change the format used to display dates, specify the default index pattern, and set the precision for displayed decimal values.

To set advanced options:

  1. Go to Settings > Advanced.
  2. Click the Edit button for the option you want to modify.
  3. Enter a new value for the option.
  4. Click the Save button.

Modifying the following settings can signficantly affect Kibana’s performance and cause problems that are difficult to diagnose. Setting a property’s value to a blank field will revert to the default behavior, which may not be compatible with other configuration settings. Deleting a custom setting removes it from Kibana permanently.

Table 2. Kibana Settings Reference

query:queryString:options

Options for the Lucene query string parser.

sort:options

Options for the Elasticsearch sort parameter.

dateFormat

The format to use for displaying pretty-formatted dates.

dateFormat:tz

The timezone that Kibana uses. The default value of Browser uses the timezone detected by the browser.

dateFormat:scaled

These values define the format used to render ordered time-based data. Formatted timestamps must adapt to the interval between measurements. Keys are ISO8601 intervals.

defaultIndex

Default is null. This property specifies the default index.

metaFields

An array of fields outside of _source. Kibana merges these fields into the document when displaying the document.

discover:sampleSize

The number of rows to show in the Discover table.

doc_table:highlight

Highlight results in Discover and Saved Searches Dashboard. Highlighing makes request slow when working on big documents. Set this property to false to disable highlighting.

courier:maxSegmentCount

Kibana splits requests in the Discover app into segments to limit the size of requests sent to the Elasticsearch cluster. This setting constrains the length of the segment list. Long segment lists can significantly increase request processing time.

fields:popularLimit

This setting governs how many of the top most popular fields are shown.

histogram:barTarget

When date histograms use the auto interval, Kibana attempts to generate this number of bars.

histogram:maxBars

Date histograms are not generated with more bars than the value of this property, scaling values when necessary.

visualization:tileMap:maxPrecision

The maximum geoHash precision displayed on tile maps: 7 is high, 10 is very high, 12 is the maximum. Explanation of cell dimensions.

visualization:tileMap:WMSdefaults

Default properties for the WMS map server support in the tile map.

visualization:colorMapping

Maps values to specified colors within visualizations.

visualization:loadingDelay

Time to wait before dimming visualizations during query.

csv:separator

A string that serves as the separator for exported values.

csv:quoteValues

Set this property to true to quote exported values.

history:limit

In fields that have history, such as query inputs, the value of this property limits how many recent values are shown.

shortDots:enable

Set this property to true to shorten long field names in visualizations. For example, instead of foo.bar.baz, show f.b.baz.

truncate:maxHeight

This property specifies the maximum height that a cell occupies in a table. A value of 0 disables truncation.

indexPattern:fieldMapping:lookBack

The value of this property sets the number of recent matching patterns to query the field mapping for index patterns with names that contain timestamps.

format:defaultTypeMap

A map of the default format name for each field type. Field types that are not explicitly mentioned use "default".

format:number:defaultPattern

Default numeral format for the "number" format.

format:bytes:defaultPattern

Default numeral format for the "bytes" format.

format:percent:defaultPattern

Default numeral format for the "percent" format.

format:currency:defaultPattern

Default numeral format for the "currency" format.

timepicker:timeDefaults

The default time filter selection.

timepicker:refreshIntervalDefaults

The time filter’s default refresh interval.

dashboard:defaultDarkTheme

Set this property to true to make new dashboards use the dark theme by default.

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