Kibana 1.0 Release

Jordan Sissel, then working at Loggly, released Kibana 1.0, an Apache 2.0 licensed web interface for visualizing data stored in Elasticsearch, particularly logs from Logstash.

Significance

This marked the initial creation of the visualization tool that would eventually be forked into OpenSearch Dashboards, establishing the core user experience and functionality.

Key facts

Date
2013-03-29
Type
invention
Location
Global (online release)