Kibana

Kibana is the user interface layer of the Elastic Stack. It provides dashboards, visualizations, and management tools for data stored in elasticsearch. Required for most real-world use cases; included by default in Elastic Cloud Serverless.

Key Features

• Discover — interactively search and filter raw data
• Lens — drag-and-drop visualization builder (charts, graphs, metrics)
• Dashboards — assemble visualizations into interactive overviews
• Maps — geospatial analysis and map layers
• Alerts & Cases — notifications for data events, incident tracking
• Console — send REST requests directly to the Elasticsearch API
• AI Assistants — built-in AI chat experiences per solution type
• Resource management — manage pipelines, data streams, trained models
• Fleet — manage elastic-agent policies and versions

API Key Management

Kibana allows creating and managing API keys for secure, automated access from scripts and external applications.

Solution-Specific Features

Each Elastic solution (Observability, Security, Search) exposes customized Kibana features including built-in dashboards and AI assistants tailored to the use case.

See Also

• elastic-stack — the platform Kibana belongs to
• elasticsearch — the backend Kibana queries
• elastic-agent — agent management UI lives in Kibana (Fleet)
• fleet — Fleet management UI lives in Kibana