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Kibana Guide

Kibana Guide: other versions:
What is Kibana?
What’s new in 7.9
Get started
- Explore Kibana using sample data
- Build your own dashboard
Set up Kibana
- Install Kibana
- Configure Kibana
- Start and stop Kibana
- Access Kibana
- Add data to Kibana
- Use Kibana in a production environment
- Upgrade Kibana
  - Standard upgrade
  - Upgrade migrations
- Configure monitoring
- Configure security
Discover
- Create an index pattern
- Set the time filter
- Search data
- Filter by field
- View document data
- View a document in context
- View field data statistics
Dashboard
- Create a dashboard
- Use drilldowns for dashboard actions
- Explore the underlying data
- Share the dashboard
Canvas
- Edit workpads
- Present your workpad
- Share your workpad
- Tutorial: Create a workpad for monitoring sales
- Canvas expression lifecycle
- Canvas function reference
  - TinyMath functions
Maps
- Get started
- Heat map layer
- Tile layer
- Vector layer
- Plot big data
- Search geographic data
- Configure map settings
- Connect to Elastic Maps Service
- Upload GeoJSON data
  - Tutorial: Index GeoJSON data
- Troubleshoot
Machine learning
- Anomaly detection
- Data frame analytics
Graph
- Create a graph
- Configure Graph
- Troubleshoot
- Limitations
Visualize
- Supported aggregations
- Lens
- Most frequently used visualizations
- TSVB
- Timelion
- Heat map
- Dashboard tools
- Vega
Observability
Logs
Metrics
APM
- Set up
- Get started
- How-to guides
- Users and privileges
- Settings
- REST API
- Troubleshooting
Uptime
Elastic Security
- Using Elastic Security
- Anomaly Detection with Machine Learning
Dev Tools
- Console
- Profiling queries and aggregations
- Debugging grok expressions
- Painless Lab
Stack Monitoring
- Beats Metrics
- Cluster Alerts
- Elasticsearch Metrics
- Kibana Alerts
- Kibana Metrics
- Logstash Metrics
- Troubleshooting
Stack Management
- Advanced Settings
- Alerts and Actions
- Beats Central Management
- Index Lifecycle Policies
- Index Management
- Ingest Node Pipelines
- Index patterns and fields
- License Management
- Numeral Formatting
- Rollup Jobs
- Saved Objects
- Security
- Snapshot and Restore
  - Tutorial: Snapshot and Restore
- Spaces
- Upgrade Assistant
- Watcher
Ingest Manager
Reporting
- Automating report generation
- Reporting configuration
- Troubleshooting
- Reporting integration
Alerting and Actions
- Defining alerts
- Action and connector types
- Alert types
- Scale and performance
REST API
- Using the APIs
- Get features API
- Kibana spaces APIs
- Kibana role management APIs
- Saved objects APIs
- Import and export dashboard APIs
  - Import dashboard
  - Export dashboard
- Logstash configuration management APIs
- Shorten URL
- Upgrade assistant APIs
Kibana plugins
Accessibility
Breaking Changes
- 7.9
- 7.8
- 7.7
- 7.6
- 7.5
- 7.4
- 7.3
- 7.2
- 7.1
- 7.0
Release Notes
- Kibana 7.9.3
- Kibana 7.9.2
- Kibana 7.9.1
- Kibana 7.9.0
- Kibana 7.8.1
- Kibana 7.8.0
- Kibana 7.7.1
- Kibana 7.7.0
- Kibana 7.6.2
- Kibana 7.6.1
- Kibana 7.6.0
- Kibana 7.5.2
- Kibana 7.5.1
- Kibana 7.5.0
- Kibana 7.4.2
- Kibana 7.4.1
- Kibana 7.4.0
- Kibana 7.3.2
- Kibana 7.3.1
- Kibana 7.3.0
- 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
- Getting started
- Best practices
  - Stability
  - Security best practices
- Architecture
- Contributing
- External plugin development
  - Functional Tests for Plugins outside the Kibana repo
  - Localization for plugins outside the Kibana repo
- Advanced

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