Reporting from Kibana

You can generate a report that contains a Kibana dashboard, visualization, saved search, or Canvas workpad. Depending on the object type, you can export the data as a PDF, PNG, or CSV document, which you can keep for yourself, or share with others.

Reporting is available from the Share menu in Discover, Visualize, Dashboard, and Canvas.

X-Pack reporting is automatically enabled in Kibana. The first time Kibana runs, it extracts a custom build for the Chromium web browser, which runs on the server in headless mode to load Kibana and capture the rendered Kibana charts as images.

Chromium is an open-source project not related to Elastic, but the Chromium binary for Kibana has been custom-built by Elastic to ensure it works with minimal setup. However, the Kibana server OS might still require additional dependencies for Chromium. See the Reporting troubleshooting section for more information about the system dependencies for different operating systems.

To generate a report, you must have the reporting_user role. You also need the appropriate Kibana privileges to access the objects that you want to report on and the Elasticsearch indices. See Reporting and security for an example.

By default, Kibana creates a PDF using the existing layout and size of the dashboard. To create a printer-friendly PDF with multiple A4 portrait pages and two visualizations per page, turn on Optimize for printing.

For a list of your reports, go to Management > Reporting. From this view, you can monitor the generation of a report and download reports that you previously generated.

To automatically generate a report from a script or with Watcher, see Automating report generation.