Kibana

As explained in Kafka for Architects

Kibana is a visualization and user-interface tool for searching, exploring, and building dashboards over Elasticsearch data.

Kibana is a visual interface for searching, exploring, and building real-time dashboards over log data indexed in Elasticsearch. It provides an SQL-like query interface and a unified view across services. section 5.1.3

Log collection architecture

Applications emit standardized log events to Kafka. Kafka forwards them for indexing in Elasticsearch, where Kibana provides interactive search and dashboards. OpenSearch Dashboards can fill the same visualization role with an OpenSearch-based stack. section 5.1.3

Figure 5.6 Conceptual flow for log data collection: log data is sent from the application to Kafka for processing, then indexed in Elasticsearch, and finally visualized in Kibana.

Trace the end-to-end flow from application log events through Kafka and Elasticsearch to Kibana visualization. section 5.1.3

How Kafka for Architects covers it

How deep it goes

Defines Kibana’s interface role and its pipeline position but stops short of implementation details.

Examples

Uses distributed-service logs, SQL-like queries, real-time dashboards, and an application-to-Kafka-to-Elasticsearch flow.

What it assumes

Assumes log events are collected and indexed in Elasticsearch before Kibana interaction begins.

What you can do after

Operate Kibana to query indexed logs and build dashboards that update as log data changes.

How it connects

Connects Kafka, Elasticsearch, log events, dashboards, REST APIs, and OpenSearch Dashboards.

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Related concepts

• Elasticsearchuses · Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that indexes data for searching, retrieval, and analysis.
• ELK stackpart of · The ELK stack is a collection of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana components for ingesting, processing, searching, analyzing, and visualizing data.
• Dev Toolsused by · Dev Tools is Kibana's interface for entering and executing Elasticsearch requests and inspecting their results.
• OpenSearch Dashboardsalternative to · OpenSearch Dashboards is an open-source web interface for searching, analyzing, and visualizing data stored in OpenSearch.
• natural language interfacekind of · A natural language interface enables interaction with a system through human-language text or speech.
• dashboardkind of · A dashboard is a visual interface that consolidates selected data, metrics, or status information for monitoring, analysis, or decision-making.

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