Dashboard activity logs: Find out which Kibana dashboards get used
Kibana now logs who viewed, edited or deleted each dashboard, how long it took and what failed, so you can catch a broken dashboard before anyone reports it.
Kibana Dashboards API: A stable contract for every panel type, tested by 50+ teams before GA
Manage Kibana dashboards as code: Commit to Git, promote across environments, and automate deployments with the Kibana API and Terraform.
Prompt to dashboard in under a minute, 5x cheaper: AI dashboards and custom Vega-Lite charts in Kibana
Describe your metrics in natural language and Kibana's AI chat generates ES|QL-backed dashboards and Vega-Lite charts, from scatter plots to conditional formatting and custom tooltips.
Close enough is fast enough: How ES|QL Fast mode makes Kibana dashboards up to 100x faster
Fast mode samples a fraction of the data instead of scanning all of it. This release also brings click-to-filter for ES|QL charts, query-powered controls, and cleaner metric and bar chart layouts.
Kibana dashboards as code: GitOps, drift detection and Terraform for Kibana dashboards in Elastic 9.4
Elastic 9.4 ships a typed Dashboards API and a native Terraform resource that bring drift detection, PR-reviewable diffs and git-based rollback to Kibana dashboards for the first time.
AI Chat in Kibana now natively renders dashboards
The Elastic AI Chat in Kibana now builds dashboards from natural language, keeping your visuals and analysis in one thread and letting you save them as reusable Kibana objects.
What’s new in Kibana Dashboards: flexible controls, improved defaults and a visual refresh
Kibana 9.4 ships a batch of dashboard improvements — from better defaults to layout controls to a visual refresh. Here's what changed and why.
Announcing read-only permissions for Kibana dashboards
Introducing read-only dashboards in Kibana, giving dashboard creators granular sharing controls to keep results accurate and protected from unwanted changes.
Improving Kibana dashboard interactivity with variable controls
Discover how to use variable controls in Kibana 8.18+ to filter individual visualizations, adjust time intervals, and group by different fields in Kibana dashboards.
Engineering a new Kibana dashboard layout to support collapsible sections & more
Building collapsible dashboard sections in Kibana required overhauling an embeddable system and creating a custom layout engine. These updates improve state management, hierarchy, and performance while setting the stage for new advanced dashboard features.