June 4, 2026
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.
May 26, 2026
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.
May 25, 2026
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.
May 22, 2026
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.
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.
May 8, 2026
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.
April 28, 2026
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.
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.
AI-powered dashboards: From a vision to Kibana
Generate a dashboard using an LLM to process an image and turn it into a Kibana Dashboard.