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Kibana User Guide

Kibana Guide: other versions:
Introduction
Set Up Kibana
- Installing Kibana
- Starting and stopping Kibana
- Configuring Kibana
  - Secure Settings
- Running Kibana on Docker
- Accessing Kibana
- Connect Kibana with Elasticsearch
- Using Kibana with Tribe nodes
- Using Kibana in a production environment
- Upgrading Kibana
- Configuring monitoring
- Configuring Security
- X-Pack Settings
Getting Started
- Get up and running with sample data
- Explore Kibana using the Flight dashboard
- Building your own dashboard
Discover
- Setting the Time Filter
- Searching Your Data
- Filtering by Field
- Viewing Document Data
- Viewing Document Context
- Viewing Field Data Statistics
Visualize
- Creating a Visualization
- Line, Area, and Bar charts
- Controls Visualization
  - Adding Input Controls
  - Global Options
- Data Table
- Markdown Widget
- Metric
- Goal and Gauge
- Pie Charts
- Coordinate Maps
- Region Maps
- Time Series Visual Builder
  - Featured Visualizations
  - Interface Overview
- Tag Clouds
- Heatmap Chart
- Vega Graphs
- Inspecting Visualizations
Dashboard
- Building a Dashboard
- Arranging Dashboard Elements
- Inspecting a Visualization from the Dashboard
- Sharing a Dashboard
Timelion
- Getting Started
- Inline Help and Documentation
Canvas
- Getting started with Canvas
  - Using the workpad
- Canvas function reference
Machine learning
- Creating anomaly detection jobs
  - Job tips
Maps
- Getting started with Maps
- Heat map layer
- Tile layer
- Vector layer
  - Terms join
  - Vector style
- Searching your data
- Connecting to Elastic Maps Service
Infrastructure
- Monitor your infrastructure
- Using the Infrastructure UI
Logs
- Using the Logs UI
APM
- Getting Started
- Visualizing Application Bottlenecks
- Using the APM UI
Uptime
- Overview
- Monitor
- Use with Elasticsearch Security
Graphing Connections in Your Data
- Getting Started
- Configuring Graph
- Troubleshooting
- Limitations
Dev Tools
- Console
- Profiling your Queries and Aggregations
- Debugging Grok Expressions
  - Getting Started
Monitoring
- Beats Metrics
- Cluster Alerts
- Elasticsearch Metrics
- Kibana Metrics
- Logstash Metrics
- Troubleshooting
Management
- License Management
- Index Patterns
  - Cross-cluster search
- Working with rollup indices
  - Create and manage rollup jobs
  - Create a visualization using rolled up data
- Index lifecycle policies
- Managing Fields
- Managing Indices
- Setting advanced options
- Managing Saved Objects
- Managing Beats
- Working with remote clusters
- Spaces
- Security
  - Authorization
  - Kibana privileges
- Watcher UI
- Upgrade Assistant
- Kibana Dashboard Only Mode
  - Advanced Configuration for Dashboard Only Mode
Reporting from Kibana
- Getting Started
- Automating Report Generation
- Deprecated Report URLs
- PDF Layout Modes
- Configuring Reporting
- Troubleshooting
- Reporting Integration
REST API
- Kibana Spaces API
- Kibana Role Management API
- Saved Objects API
- Dashboard Import API
  - Import Dashboard
  - Export Dashboard
- Logstash Configuration Management API
- URL Shortening API
  - Shorten URL
- Upgrade Assistant API
Kibana Plugins
- Installing Plugins
- Updating & Removing Plugins
- Disabling Plugins
- Configuring the Plugin Manager
- Known Plugins
Contributing to Kibana
- Core Development
- Plugin Development
- Developing Visualizations
- Add Data Guide
- Security
  - Role-based access control
- Pull request review guidelines
Limitations
- Nested Objects
- Exporting data
Release Highlights
- 6.7.0
- 6.6.0
- 6.5.0
- 6.4.0
- 6.3.0
Breaking Changes
- 6.0
- Migrating Kibana index to 6.0
Release Notes
- Kibana 6.7.2
- Kibana 6.7.1
- Kibana 6.7.0
- Kibana 6.6.2
- Kibana 6.6.1
- Kibana 6.6.0
- Kibana 6.5.4
- Kibana 6.5.3
- Kibana 6.5.2
- Kibana 6.5.1
- Kibana 6.5.0
- Kibana 6.4.3
- Kibana 6.4.2
- Kibana 6.4.1
- Kibana 6.4.0
- Kibana 6.3.2
- Kibana 6.3.1
- Kibana 6.3.0
- Kibana 6.2.4
- Kibana 6.2.3
- Kibana 6.2.2
- Kibana 6.2.1
- Kibana 6.2.0
- Kibana 6.1.4
- Kibana 6.1.3
- Kibana 6.1.2
- Kibana 6.1.1
- Kibana 6.1.0
- Kibana 6.0.1
- Kibana 6.0.0
- Kibana 6.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 6.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 6.0.0-beta2
- Kibana 6.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 6.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 6.0.0-alpha1

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