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Dashboard activity logs: Find out which Kibana dashboards get used
Elasticsearch Labs

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.

Teresa Alvarez Soler
Migrating 1,100 files to Redux Toolkit v2 without freezing the Kibana monorepo
Elasticsearch Labs

Migrating 1,100 files to Redux Toolkit v2 without freezing the Kibana monorepo

Kibana gave Redux Toolkit v2 the default package name and pushed v1 onto an explicit alias, which inverts the usual migration order. Webpack externals, yarn resolutions and an ESLint rule keep React Redux v7 and v9 out of each other's way.

Walter Rafelsberger
Kibana Dashboards API: A stable contract for every panel type, tested by 50+ teams before GA
Elasticsearch Labs

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.

Teresa Alvarez Soler
Prompt to dashboard in under a minute, 5x cheaper: AI dashboards and custom Vega-Lite charts in Kibana
Elasticsearch Labs

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.

Marta Bondyra
Close enough is fast enough: How ES|QL Fast mode makes Kibana dashboards up to 100x faster
Elasticsearch Labs

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.

Teresa Alvarez Soler
137,000 people, zero human decisions: agentic disaster response with Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch Labs

137,000 people, zero human decisions: agentic disaster response with Elasticsearch

Find out how a Kibana detection rule, a workflow and an AI agent automatically relocated 137,000 military personnel across seven installations when a hurricane hit, no dispatcher required.

Alec Carpenter
Kibana dashboards as code: GitOps, drift detection and Terraform for Kibana dashboards in Elastic 9.4
Elasticsearch Labs

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
Elasticsearch Labs

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.

Kibana cuts dashboard load time by up to 25% - here's the polling strategy behind it
Elasticsearch Labs

Kibana cuts dashboard load time by up to 25% - here's the polling strategy behind it

Find out how Kibana uses continuous polling and browser-side HTTP/2 detection to cut dashboard load times by up to 25%, with automatic fallback on HTTP/1.

Drew Tate
Describe it, don't draw it: AI-native Kibana dashboards via MCP and ES|QL
Elasticsearch Labs

Describe it, don't draw it: AI-native Kibana dashboards via MCP and ES|QL

From prompt to dashboard. Learn how to build Kibana dashboards with natural language, using example-mcp-dashbuilder: an open source MCP application that writes ES|QL queries, creates interactive charts and exports fully functional dashboards directly to Kibana.

What’s new in Kibana Dashboards: flexible controls, improved defaults and a visual refresh
Elasticsearch Labs

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.

Stop guessing which query is burning your cluster: Query activity in Kibana
Elasticsearch Labs

Stop guessing which query is burning your cluster: Query activity in Kibana

Pinpoint long-running Elasticsearch searches from Kibana: live tasks, origin context, and cancel when the cluster allows without living in low-level APIs.

Valentin Crettaz