Kibana

Kibana is an open-source data visualization and exploration tool designed to work with data stored in Elasticsearch. It enables users to create interactive dashboards, charts, and maps for monitoring, analyzing logs, metrics, and application performance data, making complex datasets accessible…

Key facts

First appeared: 2013
Category: cloud_infrastructure
Problem solved: Kibana was created to provide a powerful, user-friendly interface for visualizing and exploring the vast amounts of log data, metrics, and other time-series information indexed within Elasticsearch. Before Kibana, querying Elasticsearch directly via its REST API for analytics and dashboarding was cumbersome and required specialized technical skills, limiting accessibility for operational intelligence and monitoring.
Platforms: Linux, Web (browser-based client), macOS, Windows

Related technologies

Logstash
OpenSearch
Apache Kafka
Prometheus
Elasticsearch
Beats

Notable users

LinkedIn
T-Mobile
Adobe
Netflix
Uber
Goldman Sachs
Cisco