Kibana: This week in Kibana for December 26, 2017
Welcome to Keeping up with Kibana! This is a weekly series of posts on new developments in the Kibana project and any related learning resources and events.
Let's talk breaking changes. Wondering how we migrated #Kibana to be compatible with #Elasticsearch 6.0? Tyler walks through how the team navigated the removal of mapping types. https://t.co/aAoql5jhB2
— elastic (@elastic) December 21, 2017
Hi all,
Well, this is the last post in this series for 2017, and it has been an incredibly productive year for Kibana. Thank you for all of the enhancement requests, PRs, error reports, AMA questions, and forum posts, they help us to make Kibana better for everyone.
I won't reiterate all of the changes from 2017, but if you haven't upgraded Kibana in a while you should really read these release posts below, there is a lot of value there and we have a packed road map for 2018.
| Kibana 5.2.0 | Heatmaps, Localization, Monitoring Elasticsearch in containers |
| Kibana 5.3.0 | Top hits aggregations, Full screen visualizations, SSL passphrase support |
| Kibana 5.4.0 | Create Visualization UX, View/Edit mode for Dashboards, Time Series Visual Builder, Event Context, Geo-Centroid for heat maps, Watcher UI, Cluster Alterts |
| Kibana 5.5.0 | Filter Editor, Cross Cluster Search support, Grok Debugger, ML Job Monitoring, Dashboard Cloning, Gauge Charts, Region Maps |
| Kibana 6.0.0 | CSV Export, Accessibility improvements, Watcher UI for Threshold Alerts, Full Screen Dashboards, Dashboard Only Mode, Email notifications for Cluster Alerts, Refactor of the Visualizations Code |
| Kibana 6.1.0 | Dashboard Input Controls, Kibana Homepage, Monitoring support for Cross Cluster Search, Lab Visualizations, Pie Chart Data Labels, Disconnected Operation for Region Maps, Preserve Dashboard Layout in Reporting, Custom Panel Titles on Dashboards, License Management, Secure Settings Store |
That's all for this week, have a great end of 2017, and a happy new year!
Cheers,
Jim