Kibana : The default choice for visualizing data stored in Elasticsearch

Serigne DIAW
3 min readJan 28, 2022

Elasticsearch is the distributed search and analytics engine at the heart of the Elastic Stack. Logstash and Beats facilitate collecting, aggregating and enriching your data and storing it in Elasticsearch. Kibana enables you to interactively explore, visualize, and share insights into your data and manage and monitor the stack. Elasticsearch is where the indexing, search, and analysis magic happens.

Let’s go for Kibana ;)

A search engine at heart, users started using Elasticsearch for logs and wanted to easily ingest and visualize them. Enter Logstash, the powerful ingest pipeline, and Kibana, the flexible visualization tool.

Kibana is your window into the Elastic Stack. Specifically, it’s a browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.

Kibana is a client for ElasticSearch that provides the user with a graphical user interface (UI) that is accessible through a web browser.

This UI allows the user to perform searches, view individual documents, and aggregate results into graphs and charts and is part of the Elastic suite.

Kibana is a data visualization and exploration tool used for log and time series analytics, application monitoring and operational intelligence. It offers…

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