Panels and visualizations

Kibana provides many options to create panels with visualizations of your data and add content to your dashboards. From advanced charts, maps, and metrics to plain text and images, multiple types of panels with different capabilities are available.

Use one of the editors to create visualizations of your data. Each editor offers various capabilities.

Content*	Panel type	*Description
Visualizations	Lens	The default editor for creating powerful charts in Kibana
ES|QL	Create visualizations from ES|QL queries
Maps	Create beautiful displays of your geographical data
Field statistics	Add a field statistics view of your data to your dashboards
Custom visualizations	Use Vega to create new types of visualizations
Annotations and navigation	Text	Add context to your dashboard with markdown-based text
Image	Personalize your dashboard with custom images
Links	Add links to other dashboards or to external websites
Machine Learning and Analytics	Anomaly swim lane	Display the results from machine learning anomaly detection jobs
Anomaly chart	Display an anomaly chart from the Anomaly Explorer
Single metric viewer	Display an anomaly chart from the Single Metric Viewer
Change point detection	Display a chart to visualize change points in your data
Observability	SLO overview	Visualize a selected SLO’s health, including name, current SLI value, target, and status
SLO Alerts	Visualize one or more SLO alerts, including status, rule name, duration, and reason. In addition, configure and update alerts, or create cases directly from the panel
SLO Error Budget	Visualize the consumption of your SLO’s error budget
Legacy	Log stream (deprecated)	Display a table of live streaming logs
Aggregation based	While these panel types are still available, we recommend to use Lens
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