Kibana
{{Short description|Data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Kibana
| screenshot = Kibana demo screenshot.jpg
| caption =
| developer = Elastic NV
| latest release version = 8.11.3
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2023|12|12|df=yes}}{{cite web
| url = https://github.com/elastic/kibana/releases
| title = Releases - elastic/kibana
| website = github.com
| access-date = 2017-05-21
| archive-date = 2018-04-25
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180425110757/https://github.com/elastic/kibana/releases
| url-status = live
}}
| latest preview version =
| latest preview date =
| programming language = TypeScript, JavaScript
| operating system = Cross-platform
| genre =
| license = Triple-licensed [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/main/licenses/ELASTIC-LICENSE-2.0.txt Elastic License 2.0]{{cite web
|url = https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
|title = kibana/LICENSE.txt at master
|website = github.com
|language = en
|accessdate = 2021-04-13
|archive-date = 2021-10-30
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211030144637/https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
|url-status = live
}} (proprietary; source-available), Server Side Public License (proprietary; source-available) and Affero General Public License (free and open-source)
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Kibana is a source-available{{Cite web |last=FAQ |title=FAQ on 2021 License Change |url=https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing#does-this-mean-that-elasticsearch-and-kibana-are-no-longer-open-source |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.elastic.co |language=en-us |archive-date=2022-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031034433/https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing#does-this-mean-that-elasticsearch-and-kibana-are-no-longer-open-source |url-status=live }} data visualization dashboard software for Elasticsearch.
History
Kibana provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster. Users can create bar, line and scatter plots, or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data.{{cite web
| title = Five reasons to upgrade to Kibana 4
| url = http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=80828
| website = theserverside.com
| accessdate = 30 December 2015
| archive-date = 12 March 2016
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160312021824/http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=80828
| url-status = live
}}
Kibana also provides a presentation tool, referred to as Canvas, that allows users to create slide decks that pull live data directly from Elasticsearch.{{cite web |last=Groves |first=Ethan |date=2018-10-11 |title=Getting Started with Canvas in Kibana |url=https://www.elastic.co/blog/getting-started-with-canvas-in-kibana |website=elastic.co |accessdate=15 March 2019 |archive-date=2020-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001201908/https://www.elastic.co/blog/getting-started-with-canvas-in-kibana |url-status=live }}
The combination of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, referred to as the "Elastic Stack" (formerly the "ELK stack"), is available as a product or service.{{cite web |last=Kepes |first=Ben |date=2015-07-01 |title=Elastic Rolls Out Elasticsearch-As-A-Service |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/07/01/elastic-rolls-out-elasticsearch-as-a-service/#1eea4c41fe42 |work=Forbes |accessdate=22 December 2016 |archive-date=2016-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223072745/http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/07/01/elastic-rolls-out-elasticsearch-as-a-service/#1eea4c41fe42 |url-status=live }} Logstash provides an input stream to Elasticsearch for storage and search, and Kibana accesses the data for visualizations such as dashboards.{{cite book
| title = Kibana Essentials
| last = Gupta
| first = Yuvraj
| date = 30 October 2015
| isbn = 978-1-784-39493-6}} Elastic also provides "Beats" packages which can be configured to provide pre-made Kibana visualizations and dashboards about various database and application technologies.{{cite web |title=Getting started with Beats |url=https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/getting-started.html |website=elastic.co |accessdate=20 December 2018 |archive-date=21 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221090507/https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/getting-started.html |url-status=live }}
In December 2019, Elastic introduced Kibana Lens product, which is a simpler drag-and-drop user interface than the original aggregation based visualizations.{{Cite web |last=Nadler |first=Alona |date=December 2, 2019 |title=Introducing Kibana Lens: An easy, intuitive way to explore data |url=https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-kibana-lens |website=Elastic Blog |access-date=January 18, 2020 |archive-date=January 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117160335/https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-kibana-lens |url-status=live }}
In May 2021, OpenSearch released the first beta of OpenSearch Dashboards, the Apache-licensed fork of Kibana sponsored by Amazon Web Services after Elastic discontinued the open source project and switched to proprietary software development.{{Cite web |last=Meadows |first=Carl |date=April 12, 2021 |title=Introducing OpenSearch |url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-opensearch/ |access-date=2021-04-12 |website=Amazon Web Services |archive-date=2021-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107063959/https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-opensearch/ |url-status=live }}
In August 2024 the GNU Affero General Public License was added as an option, making Kibana free and open-source once again.{{Cite news |last1=Banon |first1=Shay |date=2024-08-29 |title=Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again |url=https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again}}
See also
- OpenSearch (software), an open source fork of Kibana
References
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External links
- {{Official website}}
- {{GitHub|elastic/kibana}}
Category:Data and information visualization software