Kibana
Kibana is the open-source interface for Elasticsearch, designed to help users query, analyze, visualize, and manage their data.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Visualize, explore, and manage your data stored in Elasticsearch with an open-source interface.
Who should look elsewhere
Requires Elasticsearch for data storage
Pros
- +Comprehensive data visualization and analysis capabilities
- +Integrated AI and machine learning for advanced insights and automation
- +Supports a wide range of use cases including observability, security, and search
- +Flexible deployment options (serverless, hosted, self-managed)
- +Open-source with a strong community and extensive features
Cons
- −Requires Elasticsearch for data storage
- −Can have a learning curve for new users due to its extensive features
- −Serverless pricing is usage-based and can vary
Key features
- ✓Search and explore data with natural language input and AI Assistant
- ✓Build interactive dashboards and visualizations (metrics, charts, graphs, maps, tables)
- ✓Integrate data with AI for query generation and explanation
- ✓Anomaly detection with no-code machine learning
- ✓Map and analyze geospatial data with multilayer maps
- ✓Set alerts and automate responses with integrations (Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow)
- ✓Correlate and analyze multiple signals for observability (logs, metrics, traces)
- ✓Detect and respond to security threats with prebuilt rules and anomaly detection
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted | — | month | Full visibility and control over HW configuration, clusters size, node count, and versions; Custom control over cluster capacity; All solutions and platform capabilities |
| Serverless | — | month | Fully managed, just bring your data. Elastic manages all HW configuration, clusters size, node count, and versions.; Automatically scales up and down based on search and indexing load to optimize performance; Most solution and platform capabilities |
| Self-managed | — | month | Full control over deployment location, HW setup and configuration, orchestration, clusters size, node count, and versions; Custom control over cluster capacity, storage-based autoscaling available in ECE and ECK; All solutions and platform capabilities |