Kibana is the visualization tool for the Elastic Stack, and can help you gain powerful insights about your data in Elasticsearch. It is often called a window into the Elastic Stack. It offers many visualizations including histograms, maps, line charts, time series, and more. You can build visualizations with just a few clicks and interactively explore data. It lets you build beautiful dashboards by combining different visualizations, sharing with others, and exporting high-quality reports.

Kibana also has management and development tools. You can manage settings and configure X‑Pack security features for Elastic Stack. Kibana also has development tools that enable developers to build and test REST API requests.

We will explore Kibana in Chapter 7, Visualizing Data with Kibana.