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What is Kibana? (Updated Guide For 2022)

Kibana is a popular user interface used for data visualisation and for creating detailed reporting dashboards. In this comprehensive introduction to Kibana, we are covering all of the basics that you will need to know as a user considering using Kibana for your log data visualisation and reporting needs.

Kibana is the formerly open-source (we’ll get into this in more detail later in the article) visualisation user interface that allows users to produce visualisations, reports and dashboards from a variety of data sources.

Kibana makes up the data visualisation arm of the ELK stack (whose two remaining components include Logstash and Elasticsearch).

Kibana dashboards provide an intuitive way of relaying data to the user by allowing them to combine a variety of different data visualisations and saved searches into a dynamically updating view that can be referred to at any point.