Kibana documentation hub

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.

Get started with Kibana

  1. Run Elasticsearch and Kibana

    Try for free on Elastic Cloud

    Get an Elastic Stack running in a few minutes with no setup needed.

    Start a free trial
    Run locally

    Spin up Elasticsearch and Kibana on your machine for development with start-local.

    curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/start-local | sh

  1. Add your data

    Bring in your data with Elastic Agent, a language client, or a connector.

    See ingest options

  2. Explore and visualize

    Query your data in Discover, or start building charts.

    Start the tutorial

What's new in Kibana

Highlights from recent releases.

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Elastic solutions

Solutions are packages of Elastic capabilities optimized for certain use cases. All solutions include the core storage, querying, and analytics capabilities of Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Explore Kibana docs

Find the Kibana app or task you need, whether you're querying data, building a dashboard, or managing the stack.

Use Kibana

Explore and visualize your data, query it, set up alerts, and work with AI features.

Explore, visualize, and analyze data

Query data in Kibana

Alerting and incident response

AI and Workflows

Set up and run Kibana

Install Kibana, bring in data, manage the stack, and keep it secure.

Install and deploy

Get data in

Manage Kibana

Secure Kibana

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