Add data

To start working with your data in Kibana, use one of the many ingest options, available from the home page. You can collect data from an app or service or upload a file that contains your data. If you’re not ready to use your own data, add a sample data set and give Kibana a test drive.

Want to ingest logs, metrics, security, or application data? Install and configure a Beats data shipper or other module to periodically collect the data and send it to Elasticsearch. You can then use the pre-built dashboards to explore and analyze the data.

Elastic Agent is the next generation of data integration modules, offering a centralized way to set up your integrations. With Fleet, you can add and manage integrations for popular services and platforms, providing an easy way to collect your data. The integrations ship with dashboards and visualizations, so you can quickly get insights into your data.

To get started, refer to Quick start: Get logs and metrics into the Elastic Stack.

If you have a log file or delimited CSV, TSV, or JSON file, you can upload it, view its fields and metrics, and optionally import it into Elasticsearch.

You can upload a file up to 100 MB. This value is configurable up to 1 GB in Advanced Settings. To upload a file with geospatial data, refer to Import geospatial data.

The Elastic Stack security features provide roles and privileges that control which users can upload files. To upload a file in Kibana and import it into an Elasticsearch index, you’ll need:

You can manage your roles, privileges, and spaces in Stack Management in Kibana. For more information, refer to Kibana role management.

If the Kibana ingest options don’t work for you, you can index your data into Elasticsearch with REST APIs or client libraries. After you add your data, you’re required to create an index pattern to tell Kibana where to find the data.