---
title: Kibana documentation hub
description: 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3796/products/kibana/v9
---

# Kibana documentation hub
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<:::{get-started}>
  title: Get started in 3 steps
  intro: Spin up Elasticsearch and Kibana, connect your data, and start exploring in minutes.
  steps:
  - title: Run Elasticsearch and Kibana
    options:
    - label: Run locally
    description: Spin up Elasticsearch and Kibana on your machine for development with `start-local`.
    code: curl -fsSL [https://elastic.co/start-local](https://elastic.co/start-local) | sh
    language: sh
  - label: Try on Cloud
    description: Start a free Elastic Cloud trial. No local setup needed.
    url: [https://cloud.elastic.co/registration](https://cloud.elastic.co/registration)
    url-label: Start a free trial
  - title: Ingest your data into Elasticsearch
    description: Send documents to Elasticsearch using the APIs, ingest pipelines, connectors, or a language client.
    link: /manage-data/ingest.md
    link-label: Ingest your data
  - title: Explore and visualize
    description: Open Discover, then build your first chart and dashboard.
    link: /explore-analyze/kibana-data-exploration-learning-tutorial.md
    link-label: Start the tutorial
</:::{get-started}>

<whats-new>
</whats-new>

<card-group>
  <link-card title="Elasticsearch">
    title: Elasticsearch
    link: /solutions/elasticsearch-solution-project
    icon: elasticsearch
    variant: es
    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
    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
    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>

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  <card-group>
    <link-card title="Releases and APIs">
      title: Releases and APIs
      links:
      - label: Release notes
        url: kibana://release-notes/index.md
      - label: Kibana API docs
        url: [https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/kibana)
      - label: Breaking changes
        url: /release-notes/kibana/breaking-changes.md
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Configuration">
      title: Configuration
      links:
      - label: Configuration reference
        url: kibana://reference/configuration-reference.md
      - label: Advanced settings
        url: kibana://reference/advanced-settings.md
      - label: Security settings
        url: kibana://reference/configuration-reference/security-settings.md
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Operations">
      title: Operations
      links:
      - label: Upgrade Kibana
        url: /deploy-manage/upgrade/deployment-or-cluster/kibana
      - label: Run in production
        url: /deploy-manage/production-guidance/kibana-in-production-environments
    </link-card>
  </card-group>

  <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="Maintain and monitor">
      title: Maintain and monitor
      link: /deploy-manage/production-guidance/kibana-in-production-environments
      description: Production guidance, upgrades, and logging for Kibana itself. Monitor the rest of the stack from the Stack management section.
      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: 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: Controls
        url: /explore-analyze/dashboards/add-controls
      - 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: Sections
        url: /explore-analyze/dashboards/arrange-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: Bar
        url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/bar-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: Gauge
        url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/gauge-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
      - label: Waffle
        url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/waffle-charts
      - label: Tag cloud
        url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/tag-cloud-charts
      - label: Region map
        url: /explore-analyze/visualize/charts/region-map-charts
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Reporting and sharing">
      title: Reporting and sharing
      link: /deploy-manage/kibana-reporting-configuration.md
      description: Generate PDF, PNG, and CSV exports. Share dashboards with links or embeds.
      links:
      - label: Configure reporting
        url: /deploy-manage/kibana-reporting-configuration.md
      - label: Share dashboards
        url: /explore-analyze/dashboards/sharing.md
    </link-card>
  </card-group>

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

    <link-card title="Alerting connectors">
      title: Alerting connectors
      link: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/alerting-cases-connectors.md
      description: Send alerts and case updates to external incident-management tools.
      links:
      - label: Jira
        url: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/jira-action-type.md
      - label: ServiceNow ITSM
        url: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/servicenow-action-type.md
      - label: PagerDuty
        url: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/pagerduty-action-type.md
      - label: Slack
        url: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/slack-action-type.md
      - label: Webhook
        url: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/webhook-action-type.md
    </link-card>
  </card-group>

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

    <link-card title="Gen-AI connectors">
      title: Gen-AI connectors
      link: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/gen-ai-connectors.md
      description: Wire Kibana up to LLM providers for use in Agent Builder, alerting summaries, and AI Assistant features.
      links:
      - label: OpenAI
        url: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/openai-action-type.md
      - label: Amazon Bedrock
        url: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/bedrock-action-type.md
      - label: Google Gemini
        url: kibana://reference/connectors-kibana/gemini-action-type.md
    </link-card>

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

    <link-card title="Machine learning">
      title: Machine learning
      link: /explore-analyze/machine-learning/machine-learning-in-kibana.md
      description: Detect anomalies, forecast trends, and run data frame analytics.
      links:
      - label: Machine learning in Kibana
        url: /explore-analyze/machine-learning/machine-learning-in-kibana.md
      - label: Anomaly detection job wizards
        url: /reference/machine-learning/supplied-anomaly-detection-configurations.md
    </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: /manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management/index-management-in-kibana.md
      - label: Data streams
        url: /manage-data/data-store/data-streams/manage-data-stream.md
      - label: Transforms
        url: /explore-analyze/transforms/transform-setup.md
      - label: Task management
        url: /deploy-manage/distributed-architecture/kibana-tasks-management.md
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Integrations and Fleet">
      title: Integrations and Fleet
      description: Browse and install integrations, deploy and manage Elastic Agents, and run Osquery, all from Kibana.
      links:
      - label: Integrations
        url: /reference/integrations.md
      - label: Fleet
        url: /reference/fleet.md
      - label: Manage agents
        url: /reference/fleet/manage-elastic-agents-in-fleet.md
      - label: Agent policies
        url: /reference/fleet/agent-policy.md
      - label: Osquery manager
        url: /solutions/security/investigate/osquery.md
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Stack Monitoring">
      title: Stack Monitoring
      link: /deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/kibana-monitoring-data
      description: Monitor the health of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats from a single Kibana app.
      links:
      - label: Kibana monitoring data
        url: /deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/kibana-monitoring-data
      - label: Configure Stack Monitoring
        url: /deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Saved objects">
      title: Saved objects
      link: /explore-analyze/find-and-organize/saved-objects.md
      description: Manage dashboards, visualizations, and other Kibana objects, including export, import, and migration across spaces.
      links:
      - label: Manage saved objects
        url: /explore-analyze/find-and-organize/saved-objects.md
      - label: Tags
        url: /explore-analyze/find-and-organize/tags.md
    </link-card>
  </card-group>

  <card-group>
    <link-card title="Console">
      title: Console
      link: cloud://reference/cloud-hosted/ec-api-console.md
      description: Run Elasticsearch and Kibana API requests interactively, with auto-complete and history.
      links:
      - label: Console overview
        url: cloud://reference/cloud-hosted/ec-api-console.md
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Query and script tools">
      title: Query and script tools
      link: /explore-analyze/query-filter/tools/search-profiler.md
      description: Profile queries, test patterns, and debug scripts.
      links:
      - label: Search Profiler
        url: /explore-analyze/query-filter/tools/search-profiler.md
      - label: Grok Debugger
        url: /explore-analyze/query-filter/tools/grok-debugger.md
      - label: Painless Lab
        url: /explore-analyze/scripting/painless-lab.md
    </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 for extending Kibana.
      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: kibana://reference/kibana-plugins.md
      - label: kibana-setup command
        url: kibana://reference/commands/kibana-setup.md
    </link-card>
  </card-group>

  <card-group>
    <link-card title="Authenticate users">
      title: Authenticate users
      links:
      - label: Kibana authentication (SSO, SAML, OIDC)
        url: /deploy-manage/users-roles/cluster-or-deployment-auth/kibana-authentication
      - label: User roles
        url: /deploy-manage/users-roles/cluster-or-deployment-auth/user-roles
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Authorize access">
      title: Authorize access
      links:
      - label: Kibana privileges
        url: /deploy-manage/users-roles/cluster-or-deployment-auth/kibana-privileges
      - label: Spaces
        url: /deploy-manage/manage-spaces
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Protect data and audit">
      title: Protect data and audit
      links:
      - label: Secure saved objects
        url: /deploy-manage/security/secure-saved-objects
      - label: Kibana and Elasticsearch mutual TLS
        url: /deploy-manage/security/kibana-es-mutual-tls
      - label: Enable audit logging
        url: /deploy-manage/security/logging-configuration/enabling-audit-logs
    </link-card>
  </card-group>

  <card-group>
    <link-card title="Diagnose common issues">
      title: Diagnose common issues
      links:
      - label: Kibana troubleshooting
        url: /troubleshoot/kibana.md
      - label: Alerts
        url: /troubleshoot/kibana/alerts.md
      - label: Maps
        url: /troubleshoot/kibana/maps.md
      - label: Reporting
        url: /troubleshoot/kibana/reporting.md
    </link-card>

    <link-card title="Capture diagnostics">
      title: Capture diagnostics
      links:
      - label: Capture Kibana diagnostics
        url: /troubleshoot/kibana/capturing-diagnostics.md
    </link-card>
  </card-group>

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

    <link-card title="Release notes">
      title: Release notes
      link: kibana://release-notes/index.md
      description: What's new, deprecated, and fixed in each Kibana release.
      links:
      - label: Kibana
        url: kibana://release-notes/index.md
      - label: Known issues
        url: /release-notes/kibana/known-issues.md
      - label: Breaking changes
        url: /release-notes/kibana/breaking-changes.md
      - label: Deprecations
        url: /release-notes/kibana/deprecations.md
        aside:
        label: Related release notes
        links:
        - label: Elasticsearch
        url: elasticsearch://release-notes/index.md
      - label: Security
        url: /release-notes/security.md
      - label: Observability
        url: /release-notes/observability.md
      - label: Serverless
        url: /release-notes/cloud-serverless.md
    </link-card>
  </card-group>
</:::::{explore}>