Overview
What is Kibana?
Kibana allows users to visualize Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack so you can do anything from tracking query load to understanding the way requests flow through your apps.
Non-Techies Data Visualization Tool!
The king of observability for many years running!
Excellent free log analysis and dashboards
Kibana: How else can you understand what is happening in production?
Popular Features
- Customizable dashboards (5)9.090%
- Drill-down analysis (5)7.070%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
What is Kibana?
Kibana allows users to visualize Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack so you can do anything from tracking query load to understanding the way requests flow through your apps.
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos
Kibana - How to Create a Data Table Using the Visualize Tab
Visualize logs in Kibana - ELK stack
Kibana - How to Filter (example #1)
Creating Drilldowns in Kibana
Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 9Pixel Perfect reports(2) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 9Customizable dashboards(5) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 9Report Formatting Templates(3) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 7Drill-down analysis(5) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 7Formatting capabilities(4) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 3Report sharing and collaboration(4) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 9.5Publish to Web(2) Ratings
- 8.5Publish to PDF(2) Ratings
- 9Report Versioning(1) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 9Report Delivery Scheduling(1) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 8Delivery to Remote Servers(1) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Data Discovery and Visualization
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- 7Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(4) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 9.5Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(2) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 10Predictive Analytics(1) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
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Reviews
(1-5 of 5)Kibana operations manager
- Visualize automated reports
- List problem areas in site
- Show consumer journey.
- Improved tutorial/ user guidance
- Improved labeling for sources
- Ease of login and sharing with coworkers
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 70%7.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- N/AN/A
- Predictive Analytics
- N/AN/A
- Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
- N/AN/A
- Customizable dashboards
- 90%9.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 90%9.0
- Pixel Perfect reports
- N/AN/A
- Drill-down analysis
- 70%7.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 70%7.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- N/AN/A
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 30%3.0
- Publish to Web
- N/AN/A
- Publish to PDF
- N/AN/A
- Report Versioning
- N/AN/A
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- N/AN/A
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- N/AN/A
- Issues that affect checkout experiences for customers are able to be prioritized and solved quickly.
- We are able to more efficiently use resources due to the automation of reporting alerts. Decreasing employee resources needed.
- Visualization allows us to quickly share issues and explain to coworkers in order to escalate issues that can cost our bottom line.
Non-Techies Data Visualization Tool!
- Dashboards
- Integration with Elastic Search.
- Search, Filters, Reports and Charts.
- Search queries is a bit complex.
- More out of the box dashboards and reports.
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 100%10.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 90%9.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 100%10.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 90%9.0
- Pixel Perfect reports
- 100%10.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 100%10.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 90%9.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 100%10.0
- Publish to Web
- 100%10.0
- Publish to PDF
- 90%9.0
- Increased customer satisfaction
- Cost effective
- Time effective
The king of observability for many years running!
- Fast searches with powerful index.
- Beautiful data visualizations.
- Real-time observability.
- Data ingestion can be slow if not properly architected.
- Operational workload is heavy to keep it finely tuned.
- Learning curve for initial install can be steep for a production environment.
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 100%10.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 100%10.0
- Predictive Analytics
- 100%10.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 90%9.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 80%8.0
- Pixel Perfect reports
- 80%8.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 90%9.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 80%8.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- N/AN/A
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 90%9.0
- Publish to Web
- 90%9.0
- Publish to PDF
- 80%8.0
- Report Versioning
- 90%9.0
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- 90%9.0
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- 80%8.0
- Improved understanding of production environment.
- Reduced downtime.
- More empowered developers who understand their systems in production.
Excellent free log analysis and dashboards
- Dashboards.
- Log parsing.
- Log research.
- Some performance issues with large datasets.
- Linking to dashboards makes extremely long urls.
- Lack of reports.
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 70%7.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 100%10.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 100%10.0
- First stop when diagnosing production performance issues.
- searching
- near real-time
- slow
- difficult to operate
Elasticsearch is notoriously difficult to operate with large data volumes, which is why it does not serve well as cold / archival storage of logs.
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- N/AN/A
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- N/AN/A
- Customizable dashboards
- 100%10.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- N/AN/A
- Drill-down analysis
- 100%10.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 100%10.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 100%10.0
- Publish to Web
- N/AN/A
- Publish to PDF
- N/AN/A
- Report Versioning
- N/AN/A
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- N/AN/A
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- N/AN/A
- reduces downtime
- increases developer velocity
Google BigQuery is not really suitable for real-time searches.
All-in-all, we used all three of these solutions as a complement to Kibana, either to improve the reliability of the logging infrastructure or for cold storage of logs.