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Kibana

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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.

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Popular Features

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  • Customizable dashboards (5)
    9.0
    90%
  • Drill-down analysis (5)
    7.0
    70%

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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.

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Product Demos

Kibana - How to Create a Data Table Using the Visualize Tab

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Visualize logs in Kibana - ELK stack

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Kibana - How to Filter (example #1)

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Creating Drilldowns in Kibana

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

9
Avg 8.4

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

5.7
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.8
Avg 8.4

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.

8.8
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Kibana?

Kibana Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Customizable dashboards and Report Formatting Templates highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Kibana are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kibana to visualize automated error reports on our website. We are able to find potential consumer issues and investigate.
  • 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
We are able to set alerts whenever a certain number of errors are appearing. These automated alerts allow us to have constant monitoring. Kibana is not very useful for much more edge cases or slow burn cases. These things will often hide under the noise of all the other indicators. Also, we need to find a way to ignore alerts.
Data Discovery and Visualization (4)
17.5%
1.8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
70%
7.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
N/A
N/A
Predictive Analytics
N/A
N/A
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (3)
60%
6.0
Customizable dashboards
90%
9.0
Report Formatting Templates
90%
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
N/A
N/A
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
42.5%
4.3
Drill-down analysis
70%
7.0
Formatting capabilities
70%
7.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
N/A
N/A
Report sharing and collaboration
30%
3.0
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
N/A
N/A
Publish to Web
N/A
N/A
Publish to PDF
N/A
N/A
Report Versioning
N/A
N/A
Report Delivery Scheduling
N/A
N/A
Delivery to Remote Servers
N/A
N/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.
Amr Saad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kibana in the R&D Department, we use it to get insights about Logs generated from our systems in different projects. Kibama has helped our department on many occasions where there was an issue on the Production Environment and we need to debug and get to the root cause as fast as we can to deploy a hotfix for our client. Also, it gave us many insights regarding the different end users' behaviors which in return helped us in achieving better quality.
  • Dashboards
  • Integration with Elastic Search.
  • Search, Filters, Reports and Charts.
  • Search queries is a bit complex.
  • More out of the box dashboards and reports.
Kibana integrates seamlessly with Elastic Search which gives us access to parse and analyze data generated from our systems in order to make decisions. Also, Kibana helps us create insightful reports and dashboards that give us insights into the end-users usage on the system and helps us find the root cause of issues as well.
Data Discovery and Visualization (2)
95%
9.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
100%
10.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
90%
9.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
90%
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
100%
10.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (3)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Drill-down analysis
100%
10.0
Formatting capabilities
90%
9.0
Report sharing and collaboration
100%
10.0
Report Output and Scheduling (2)
95%
9.5
Publish to Web
100%
10.0
Publish to PDF
90%
9.0
  • Increased customer satisfaction
  • Cost effective
  • Time effective
Kibana has a better usability experience, the core features I was using existed in all of them. I liked more in Kibana how you can easily create dashboards, charts, and reports without the need to be a tech person.
IBM Cognos Analytics, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kibana is a cornerstone of our observability strategy. We use it for all aspects of our operational workflows, from tailing log files in production to debug events in real-time, to creating beautiful and enlightening dashboards for surfacing key metrics for our leadership team. Kibana helps us both with tracking our "known knowns" and our "unknown unknowns" via its expressive and powerful filters and customizations.
  • 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.
Great for teams big and small that want a single pane of glass for understanding their systems, from dev, to staging, to production. Well-suited for teams that need to preserve logs for long-term compliance reasons, and also mine their logs for useful operational insights. Highly recommended as both an open source project and a commercial offering with fantastic paid support.
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
100%
10.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
100%
10.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
100%
10.0
Predictive Analytics
100%
10.0
BI Standard Reporting (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Customizable dashboards
90%
9.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
65%
6.5
Drill-down analysis
90%
9.0
Formatting capabilities
80%
8.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
N/A
N/A
Report sharing and collaboration
90%
9.0
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
86%
8.6
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.
Nick Horvath | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Kibana both for monitoring our production environment and debugging. The log parsing and aggregation are extremely helpful when trying to both get an overview and drill down into specific issues.
  • Dashboards.
  • Log parsing.
  • Log research.
  • Some performance issues with large datasets.
  • Linking to dashboards makes extremely long urls.
  • Lack of reports.
It's well suited to creating dashboards for getting an overview of what is going on with an application.
Data Discovery and Visualization (1)
70%
7.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
70%
7.0
BI Standard Reporting (1)
100%
10.0
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (1)
100%
10.0
Drill-down analysis
100%
10.0
Report Output and Scheduling
N/A
N/A
  • First stop when diagnosing production performance issues.
Kibana is free; it was the first and only thing we've tried in this area.
I have not contacted Kibana support.
Cristian Klein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kibana is the front-end to Elasticsearch. Together they offer a "Google-like" interface for all logs produced by applications, allowing to quickly investigate potential issues and access audit logs. Search is happening in near-real time, which makes the information presented relevant. It offers various filters, as required to quickly churn through the vast amount of logs that a production application may produce. We generally use Kibana/Elasticsearch only for recent logs (e.g., retention period of 30 days) and distribute logs simultaneously to a longer-term storage solution, such as Azure Storage or AWS S3.
  • searching
  • near real-time
  • slow
  • difficult to operate
Kibana (as a front-end to Elasticsearch) is particularly well suite for searching through recent logs, such as the last 30 days.

Elasticsearch is notoriously difficult to operate with large data volumes, which is why it does not serve well as cold / archival storage of logs.
Data Discovery and Visualization (2)
N/A
N/A
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
N/A
N/A
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (2)
50%
5.0
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
N/A
N/A
Ad-hoc Reporting (3)
100%
10.0
Drill-down analysis
100%
10.0
Formatting capabilities
100%
10.0
Report sharing and collaboration
100%
10.0
Report Output and Scheduling (5)
N/A
N/A
Publish to Web
N/A
N/A
Publish to PDF
N/A
N/A
Report Versioning
N/A
N/A
Report Delivery Scheduling
N/A
N/A
Delivery to Remote Servers
N/A
N/A
  • reduces downtime
  • increases developer velocity
Stackdriver and CloudWatch are not as intuitive and easy-to-use as Kibana, and do not offer such advanced filtering capabilities.

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.
We did not use the official Kibana support. Documentation was easy enough to follow.
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