Supported features by panel typeedit

Each panel type in Kibana supports different features and Elasticsearch aggregations. This reference can help simplify the comparison if you need a specific feature.

Supported panel types by editoredit

Type Aggregation-based Lens TSVB Timelion Vega

Table

X

X

X

Table with summary row

X

Bar, line, and area charts

X

X

X

X

X

Percentage bar or area chart

X

X

X

Split bar, line, and area charts

X

X

Pie and donut charts

X

X

X

Sunburst chart

X

X

Heat map

X

X

Gauge and Goal

X

X

Markdown

X

Metric

X

X

X

X

Tag cloud

X

X

Bucket aggregationsedit

Vega supports all bucket aggregations because it allows custom queries.

For information about Elasticsearch bucket aggregations, refer to Bucket aggregations.

Type Agg-based Markdown Lens TSVB

Histogram

X

X

X

Date histogram

X

X

X

X

Date range

X

X

Filter

X

X

X

Filters

X

X

X

X

GeoHash grid

X

X

IP range

X

X

Range

X

X

X

Terms

X

X

X

X

Significant terms

X

X

X

Metrics aggregationsedit

Vega supports all metric aggregations because it allows custom queries.

For information about Elasticsearch metrics aggregations, refer to Metrics aggregations.

Type Agg-based Markdown Lens TSVB

Metrics with filters

X

Average

X

X

X

X

Sum

X

X

X

X

Unique count (Cardinality)

X

X

X

X

Max

X

X

X

X

Min

X

X

X

X

Percentiles

X

X

X

X

Percentiles Rank

X

X

X

Top hit (Last value)

X

X

X

X

Value count

X

Pipeline aggregationsedit

Vega supports all pipeline aggregations because it allows custom queries.

For information about Elasticsearch pipeline aggregations, refer to Pipeline aggregations.

Type Agg-based Markdown Lens TSVB

Avg bucket

X

X

X

Derivative

X

X

X

X

Max bucket

X

X

X

Min bucket

X

X

X

Sum bucket

X

X

X

Moving average

X

X

X

X

Cumulative sum

X

X

X

X

Bucket script

X

Serial differencing

X

X

X

Other featuresedit

This comparison is meant for users who are not sure about which Kibana panel type to build their advanced visualization.

Type Agg-based Lens TSVB Timelion Vega

Math on aggregated data

X

X

X

Visualize two indices

X

X

X

X

Math across indices

X

X

Fully custom Elasticsearch queries

X