Kibana

Kibana is your window into the Elastic Stack. Specifically, it's a browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.

• Getting Started
  • Using a Kibana Release
  • Building and Running Kibana, and/or Contributing Code
• Documentation
• Version Compatibility with Elasticsearch
• Questions? Problems? Suggestions?

Getting Started

If you just want to try Kibana out, check out the Elastic Stack Getting Started Page to give it a whirl.

If you're interested in diving a bit deeper and getting a taste of Kibana's capabilities, head over to the Kibana Getting Started Page.

Using a Kibana Release

If you want to use a Kibana release in production, give it a test run, or just play around:

• Download the latest version on the Kibana Download Page.
• Learn more about Kibana's features and capabilities on the Kibana Product Page.
• We also offer a hosted version of Kibana on our Cloud Service.

Building and Running Kibana, and/or Contributing Code

You might want to build Kibana locally to contribute some code, test out the latest features, or try out an open PR:

• CONTRIBUTING.md will help you get Kibana up and running.
• If you would like to contribute code, please follow our STYLEGUIDE.mdx.
• For all other questions, check out the FAQ.md and wiki.

Documentation

Visit Elastic.co for the full Kibana documentation.

For information about building the documentation, see the README in elastic/docs.

Version Compatibility with Elasticsearch

Ideally, you should be running Elasticsearch and Kibana with matching version numbers. If your Elasticsearch has an older version number or a newer major number than Kibana, then Kibana will fail to run. If Elasticsearch has a newer minor or patch number than Kibana, then the Kibana Server will log a warning.

Note: The version numbers below are only examples, meant to illustrate the relationships between different types of version numbers.

Questions? Problems? Suggestions?

• If you've found a bug or want to request a feature, please create a GitHub Issue. Please check to make sure someone else hasn't already created an issue for the same topic.
• Need help using Kibana? Ask away on our Kibana Discuss Forum and a fellow community member or Elastic engineer will be glad to help you out.