Kibana Guide: other versions:
Introduction
Get started
- Explore Kibana using sample data
- Build your own dashboard
Set Up Kibana
- Installing Kibana
- Starting and stopping Kibana
- Configuring Kibana
- Running Kibana on Docker
- Accessing Kibana
- Connect Kibana with Elasticsearch
- Using Kibana in a production environment
- Upgrading Kibana
  - Standard upgrade
  - Upgrade migrations
- Configuring monitoring
- Configuring security
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
- Saving Visualizations
- Using rolled up data in 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
- Timelion
- TSVB
- Tag Clouds
- Heatmap Chart
- Vega Graphs
- Inspecting Visualizations
Dashboard
- Create a dashboard
- Dashboard-only mode
Canvas
- Getting started with Canvas
  - Create a workpad
- Canvas function reference
Graph data connections
- Using Graph
- Configuring Graph
- Troubleshooting
- Limitations
Machine learning
- Anomaly detection
Maps
- Getting started with Maps
- Heat map layer
- Tile layer
- Vector layer
  - Terms join
  - Vector styling
- Searching your data
  - Filtering a single layer
  - Searching across multiple indices
- Connecting to Elastic Maps Service
Code
- Import your first repo
- Repo management
- Install language server
- Basic navigation
- Semantic code navigation
- Search
- Config for multiple Kibana instances
Infrastructure
- Monitor your infrastructure
- Using the Infrastructure UI
- Metrics Explorer
Logs
- Getting started with the Logs UI
- Using the Logs UI
- Configuring the Logs UI
APM
- Getting Started
- Visualizing Application Bottlenecks
- Using APM
Uptime
- Overview
- Monitor
SIEM
- Using the SIEM UI
Dev Tools
- Console
- Profiling queries and aggregations
- Debugging grok expressions
Stack Monitoring
- Beats Metrics
- Cluster Alerts
- Elasticsearch Metrics
- Kibana Metrics
- Logstash Metrics
- Troubleshooting
Management
- License Management
- Index patterns
  - Cross-cluster search
- Rollup jobs
- Index lifecycle policies
- Managing Fields
- Managing Indices
- Setting advanced options
- Saved Objects
- Managing Beats
- Working with remote clusters
- Snapshot repositories
- Spaces
- Security
- Watcher UI
- Upgrade Assistant
Reporting from Kibana
- Automating report generation
- Reporting configuration
- Troubleshooting
- Reporting integration
REST API
- Features API
  - Get Features
- 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
- Install plugins
- Update and remove plugins
- Disable plugins
- Configure the plugin manager
- Known Plugins
Limitations
Release Highlights
- 7.2.0
- 7.1.0
- 7.0.0
Breaking Changes
- 7.2
- 7.1
- 7.0
Release Notes
- Kibana 7.2.1
- Kibana 7.2.0
- Kibana 7.1.1
- Kibana 7.1.0
- Kibana 7.0.1
- Kibana 7.0.0
- Kibana 7.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 7.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 7.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 7.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 7.0.0-alpha1
Developer guide
- Core Development
- Plugin Development
- Developing Visualizations
- Add Data Guide
- Security
  - Role-based access control
- Pull request review guidelines

IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

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Installing Kibana

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Hosted Kibana

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If you are running our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud, you access Kibana with a single click. (You can sign up for a free trial and start exploring data in minutes.)

Installing Kibana Yourself

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Starting with version 6.0.0, Kibana only supports 64 bit operating systems.

Kibana is provided in the following package formats:

`tar.gz`/`zip`	The `tar.gz` packages are provided for installation on Linux and Darwin and are the easiest choice for getting started with Kibana. The `zip` package is the only supported package for Windows. Install Kibana with `.tar.gz` or Install Kibana on Windows
`deb`	The `deb` package is suitable for Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian-based systems. Debian packages may be downloaded from the Elastic website or from our Debian repository. Install Kibana with Debian Package
`rpm`	The `rpm` package is suitable for installation on Red Hat, Centos, SLES, OpenSuSE and other RPM-based systems. RPMs may be downloaded from the Elastic website or from our RPM repository. Install Kibana with RPM
`docker`	Images are available for running Kibana as a Docker container. They may be downloaded from the Elastic Docker Registry. Running Kibana on Docker
`brew`	Formulae are available from the Elastic Homebrew tap for installing Kibana on macOS with the Homebrew package manager. Install Kibana on macOS with Homebrew

If your Elasticsearch installation is protected by X-Pack security see Configuring Security in Kibana for additional setup instructions.

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