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title: Kibana
description: 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3256/products/kibana/v9
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# Kibana
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  **New to Kibana?** [Learn data exploration and visualization](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/kibana-data-exploration-learning-tutorial) — a hands-on walk-through of Discover, ES|QL, visualizations, and dashboards.
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<card-group>
  <link-card title="Self-managed">
    title: Self-managed
    link: /deploy-manage/deploy/self-managed/install-kibana
    description: Install and run Kibana on your own infrastructure.
    links:
    - label: Docker
      url: /deploy-manage/deploy/self-managed/install-kibana-with-docker
    - label: Debian / Ubuntu
      url: /deploy-manage/deploy/self-managed/install-kibana-with-debian-package
    - label: RPM
      url: /deploy-manage/deploy/self-managed/install-kibana-with-rpm
    - label: Windows
      url: /deploy-manage/deploy/self-managed/install-kibana-on-windows
    - label: Configure (kibana.yml)
      url: /deploy-manage/deploy/self-managed/configure-kibana
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Managed deployments">
    title: Managed deployments
    link: /deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/access-kibana
    description: Run Kibana on Elastic Cloud, Kubernetes, or ECE.
    links:
    - label: Elastic Cloud Hosted
      url: /deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/access-kibana
    - label: Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)
      url: /deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-on-k8s/kibana-configuration
    - label: Elastic Cloud Enterprise
      url: /deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-enterprise/access-kibana
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Configure and secure">
    title: Configure and secure
    link: /deploy-manage/users-roles/cluster-or-deployment-auth/kibana-authentication
    description: Authentication, roles, spaces, and encryption.
    links:
    - label: Authentication (SSO, SAML, OIDC...)
      url: /deploy-manage/users-roles/cluster-or-deployment-auth/kibana-authentication
    - label: Kibana privileges
      url: /deploy-manage/users-roles/cluster-or-deployment-auth/kibana-privileges
    - label: Spaces
      url: /deploy-manage/manage-spaces
    - label: Secure saved objects
      url: /deploy-manage/security/secure-saved-objects
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Maintain and monitor">
    title: Maintain and monitor
    link: /deploy-manage/production-guidance/kibana-in-production-environments
    description: Production guidance, upgrades, reporting, monitoring, and logging.
    links:
    - label: Run in production
      url: /deploy-manage/production-guidance/kibana-in-production-environments
    - label: Upgrade Kibana
      url: /deploy-manage/upgrade/deployment-or-cluster/kibana
    - label: Monitoring
      url: /deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/kibana-monitoring-data
    - label: Logging
      url: /deploy-manage/monitor/logging-configuration/kibana-logging
  </link-card>
</card-group>

<card-group>
  <link-card title="Discover">
    title: Discover
    link: /explore-analyze/discover/discover-get-started
    description: Browse documents, filter, and query your indices in real time.
    links:
    - label: Get started with Discover
      url: /explore-analyze/discover/discover-get-started
    - label: Use ES|QL in Kibana
      url: /explore-analyze/query-filter/languages/esql-kibana
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Dashboards">
    title: Dashboards
    link: /explore-analyze/dashboards
    description: Build interactive dashboards that combine visualizations, controls, and context.
    links:
    - label: Create a dashboard
      url: /explore-analyze/dashboards/create-dashboard
    - label: Build and customize
      url: /explore-analyze/dashboards/building
    - label: Organize panels and sections
      url: /explore-analyze/dashboards/arrange-panels
    - label: Share and export
      url: /explore-analyze/dashboards/sharing
      aside:
      label: Panel types
      links:
      - label: Visualizations
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/lens
    - label: Maps
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/maps
    - label: Text
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/text-panels
    - label: Images
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/image-panels
    - label: Links
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/link-panels
    - label: Alerts
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/alert-panels
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Build visualizations">
    title: Build visualizations
    link: /explore-analyze/visualize/lens
    description: Create charts and visual panels using the drag-and-drop editor, query mode (ES|QL), Vega, or Maps.
    links:
    - label: Visualization editor (drag-and-drop)
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/lens
    - label: Query mode (ES|QL)
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/esorql
    - label: Vega
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/custom-visualizations-with-vega
    - label: Maps
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/maps
      aside:
      label: Chart types
      links:
      - label: Area
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/area-charts
    - label: Line
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/line-charts
    - label: Pie
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/pie-charts
    - label: Table
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/tables
    - label: Metric
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/metric-charts
    - label: Heat map
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/heat-map-charts
    - label: Treemap
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/treemap-charts
    - label: Mosaic
      url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/mosaic-charts
  </link-card>
</card-group>

<card-group>
  <link-card title="Alerting and rules">
    title: Alerting and rules
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/alerting/alerts/alerting-getting-started](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/alerting/alerts/alerting-getting-started)
    description: Detect important changes and notify people or trigger actions.
    links:
    - label: Getting started
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/alerting/alerts/alerting-getting-started](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/alerting/alerts/alerting-getting-started)
    - label: Create and manage rules
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/alerting/alerts/create-manage-rules](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/alerting/alerts/create-manage-rules)
    - label: Performance and scaling
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/production-guidance/kibana-alerting-production-considerations](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/production-guidance/kibana-alerting-production-considerations)
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Connectors">
    title: Connectors
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana)
    description: Integrate Kibana with external services for AI, notifications, and case management.
    links:
    - label: GenAI (OpenAI, Bedrock, Gemini...)
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana/gen-ai-connectors](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana/gen-ai-connectors)
    - label: Alerting & cases (Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty...)
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana/alerting-cases-connectors](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana/alerting-cases-connectors)
    - label: Elastic Stack
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana)
    - label: Data & context sources
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/connectors-kibana)
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Reporting and sharing">
    title: Reporting and sharing
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/kibana-reporting-configuration](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/kibana-reporting-configuration)
    description: Generate PDF, PNG, and CSV exports. Share dashboards with links or embeds.
    links:
    - label: Configure reporting
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/kibana-reporting-configuration](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/kibana-reporting-configuration)
    - label: Share dashboards
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/sharing](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/sharing)
    - label: Saved objects
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/saved-objects](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/saved-objects)
  </link-card>
</card-group>

<card-group>
  <link-card title="Agent Builder">
    title: Agent Builder
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/elastic-agent-builder](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/elastic-agent-builder)
    description: Build custom AI agents that reason over your Elasticsearch data using LLMs and tools.
    links:
    - label: Overview
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/elastic-agent-builder](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/elastic-agent-builder)
    - label: Agents
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/agent-builder-agents](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/agent-builder-agents)
    - label: Custom tools
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/tools/custom-tools](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/tools/custom-tools)
    - label: Programmatic access (MCP, A2A, API)
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/programmatic-access](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/programmatic-access)
    - label: 'Tutorial: build a custom agent'
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/agent-builder-api-tutorial](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/agent-builder-api-tutorial)
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Workflows">
    title: Workflows
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/workflows](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/workflows)
    description: Automate tasks with sequences that chain Kibana actions, HTTP calls, and AI agents.
    links:
    - label: Get started
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/workflows/get-started](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/workflows/get-started)
    - label: Kibana action steps
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/workflows/steps/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/workflows/steps/kibana)
    - label: Call agents from workflows
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/agents-and-workflows](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/ai-features/agent-builder/agents-and-workflows)
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Machine learning">
    title: Machine learning
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/machine-learning-in-kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/machine-learning-in-kibana)
    description: Detect anomalies, forecast trends, and run data frame analytics.
    links:
    - label: Machine learning in Kibana
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/machine-learning-in-kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/machine-learning-in-kibana)
    - label: Anomaly detection job wizards
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/machine-learning/supplied-anomaly-detection-configurations](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/machine-learning/supplied-anomaly-detection-configurations)
  </link-card>
</card-group>

<card-group>
  <link-card title="Elasticsearch">
    title: Elasticsearch
    link: /solutions/elasticsearch-solution-project
    icon: elasticsearch
    variant: es
    description: Build powerful search and RAG applications using vector database, AI toolkit, and advanced retrieval capabilities.
    links:
    - label: Solution overview
      url: /solutions/elasticsearch-solution-project
    - label: Get started
      url: /solutions/elasticsearch-solution-project/get-started
    - label: Agent Builder
      url: /explore-analyze/ai-features/elastic-agent-builder
      aside:
      label: Key features
      links:
      - label: Playground
      url: /explore-analyze/query-filter/tools/playground
    - label: Vector search
      url: /solutions/search/vector
    - label: Content connectors
      url: /reference/search-connectors
    - label: Semantic search
      url: /solutions/search/semantic-search/semantic-search-elser-ingest-pipelines
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Observability">
    title: Observability
    link: /solutions/observability
    icon: observability
    variant: obs
    description: Resolve problems with open, flexible, and unified observability powered by advanced machine learning and analytics.
    links:
    - label: Solution overview
      url: /solutions/observability
    - label: Get started
      url: /solutions/observability/get-started
    - label: Agent Builder
      url: /solutions/observability/ai/agent-builder-observability
      aside:
      label: Key features
      links:
      - label: APM
      url: /solutions/observability/apm
    - label: Logs
      url: /solutions/observability/logs
    - label: Infrastructure
      url: /solutions/observability/infra-and-hosts
    - label: Synthetics
      url: /solutions/observability/synthetics/get-started
    - label: SLOs
      url: /solutions/observability/incident-management/service-level-objectives-slos
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Security">
    title: Security
    link: /solutions/security
    icon: security
    variant: sec
    description: Detect, investigate, and respond to threats with AI-driven security analytics to protect your organization.
    links:
    - label: Solution overview
      url: /solutions/security
    - label: Get started
      url: /solutions/security/get-started
    - label: Agent Builder
      url: /solutions/security/ai/agent-builder/agent-builder
      aside:
      label: Key features
      links:
      - label: SIEM
      url: /solutions/security/get-started/get-started-detect-with-siem
    - label: Detection rules
      url: /solutions/security/detect-and-alert/manage-detection-rules
    - label: Elastic Defend
      url: /solutions/security/configure-elastic-defend
    - label: Cloud security
      url: /solutions/security/cloud
    - label: Cases
      url: /solutions/security/investigate/security-cases
  </link-card>
</card-group>

<card-group>
  <link-card title="Data and indices">
    title: Data and indices
    description: Manage Elasticsearch indices, data streams, ingest pipelines, and transforms from Kibana.
    links:
    - label: Index management
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/index-management-in-kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/index-management-in-kibana)
    - label: Data streams
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/manage-data/data-store/data-streams/manage-data-stream](https://www.elastic.co/docs/manage-data/data-store/data-streams/manage-data-stream)
    - label: Transforms
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/transforms/transform-setup](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/transforms/transform-setup)
    - label: Task management
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/distributed-architecture/kibana-tasks-management](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/distributed-architecture/kibana-tasks-management)
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Integrations and Fleet">
    title: Integrations and Fleet
    description: Deploy and manage Elastic Agents, integrations, and Osquery.
    links:
    - label: Fleet
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/fleet](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/fleet)
    - label: Manage agents
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/fleet/manage-elastic-agents-in-fleet](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/fleet/manage-elastic-agents-in-fleet)
    - label: Agent policies
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/fleet/agent-policy](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/fleet/agent-policy)
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Developer tools">
    title: Developer tools
    description: Run API requests, profile queries, test grok patterns, and debug Painless scripts.
    links:
    - label: Console
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/cloud/cloud-hosted/ec-api-console](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/cloud/cloud-hosted/ec-api-console)
    - label: Search Profiler
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/tools/search-profiler](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/tools/search-profiler)
    - label: Grok Debugger
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/tools/grok-debugger](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/tools/grok-debugger)
  </link-card>
</card-group>

<card-group>
  <link-card title="Configuration and settings">
    title: Configuration and settings
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference)
    description: All kibana.yml settings and UI-configurable advanced settings.
    links:
    - label: General
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/general-settings](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/general-settings)
    - label: Alerting
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/alerting-settings](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/alerting-settings)
    - label: Security
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/security-settings](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/security-settings)
    - label: Reporting
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/reporting-settings](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/reporting-settings)
    - label: Monitoring
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/monitoring-settings](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/monitoring-settings)
    - label: Advanced settings (UI)
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/advanced-settings](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/advanced-settings)
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="APIs and plugins">
    title: APIs and plugins
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/kibana)
    description: REST API, plugins, and CLI commands.
    links:
    - label: Kibana REST API
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/kibana)
    - label: Kibana serverless API
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/serverless-kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/serverless-kibana)
    - label: Plugins
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/kibana-plugins](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/kibana-plugins)
    - label: kibana-setup command
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/commands/kibana-setup](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/commands/kibana-setup)
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Release notes">
    title: Release notes
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana)
    description: What's new, deprecated, and fixed in each Kibana release.
    links:
    - label: Kibana
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana)
    - label: Known issues
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana/known-issues](https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana/known-issues)
    - label: Breaking changes
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana/breaking-changes](https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana/breaking-changes)
    - label: Deprecations
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana/deprecations](https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/kibana/deprecations)
      aside:
      label: Related release notes
      links:
      - label: Elasticsearch
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/elasticsearch)
    - label: Security
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/security](https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/security)
    - label: Observability
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/observability](https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/observability)
    - label: Serverless
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/serverless](https://www.elastic.co/docs/release-notes/serverless)
  </link-card>

  <link-card title="Troubleshooting">
    title: Troubleshooting
    link: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana)
    description: Diagnose and fix common Kibana issues.
    links:
    - label: General
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana)
    - label: Alerts
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana/alerts](https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana/alerts)
    - label: Maps
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana/maps](https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana/maps)
    - label: Reporting
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana/reporting](https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana/reporting)
    - label: Capture diagnostics
      url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana/capturing-diagnostics](https://www.elastic.co/docs/troubleshoot/kibana/capturing-diagnostics)
  </link-card>
</card-group>