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The UI for the Elasticsearch platform. Explore and visualize your data, build dashboards, set up alerts, automate tasks with AI, and use purpose-built solutions for Search, Observability, and Security.
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 | sh language: sh - label: Try on Cloud description: Start a free Elastic Cloud trial. No local setup needed. url: https://cloud.elastic.co/registration url-label: Start a free trial
- label: Run locally
description: Spin up Elasticsearch and Kibana on your machine for development with
- 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
- Dashboards and visualizations APIs Programmatically create and manage dashboards and visualizations
- AI agent skills Teach AI coding agents to work with the Elastic stack
- Agent Builder Build custom AI agents that reason over your data
- Workflows Automate tasks with Kibana actions, HTTP calls, and AI agents
Solutions
Solutions add purpose-built experiences on top of Kibana for specific use cases. Use one as your starting point, or work with Kibana's features directly.
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Key features
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Key features
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Key features
Quick links
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Releases and APIs
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Configuration
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Operations
Deploy and manage
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Install and run Kibana on your own infrastructure.
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Run Kibana on Elastic Cloud, Kubernetes, or ECE.
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Production guidance, upgrades, and logging for Kibana itself. Monitor the rest of the stack from the Stack management section.
Explore, visualize, and analyze
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Browse documents, filter, and query your indices in real time.
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Build interactive dashboards that combine visualizations, controls, and context.
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Create charts and visual panels using the drag-and-drop editor, query mode (ES|QL), Vega, or Maps.
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Generate PDF, PNG, and CSV exports. Share dashboards with links or embeds.
Alerting and incident response
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Detect important changes and notify people or trigger actions.
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Send alerts and case updates to external incident-management tools.
AI and automation
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Build custom AI agents that reason over your Elasticsearch data using LLMs and tools.
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Wire Kibana up to LLM providers for use in Agent Builder, alerting summaries, and AI Assistant features.
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Automate tasks with sequences that chain Kibana actions, HTTP calls, and AI agents.
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Detect anomalies, forecast trends, and run data frame analytics.
Stack management
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Data and indices
Manage Elasticsearch indices, data streams, ingest pipelines, and transforms from Kibana.
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Integrations and Fleet
Browse and install integrations, deploy and manage Elastic Agents, and run Osquery, all from Kibana.
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Monitor the health of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats from a single Kibana app.
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Manage dashboards, visualizations, and other Kibana objects, including export, import, and migration across spaces.
Developer tools
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Run Elasticsearch and Kibana API requests interactively, with auto-complete and history.
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Profile queries, test patterns, and debug scripts.
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REST API, plugins, and CLI commands for extending Kibana.
Secure Kibana
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Authenticate users
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Authorize access
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Protect data and audit
Troubleshoot
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Diagnose common issues
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Capture diagnostics
Reference
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All kibana.yml settings and UI-configurable advanced settings.
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What's new, deprecated, and fixed in each Kibana release.
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