Kibana is an open source platform maintained by the elastic company. It is an excellent analytics and visualisation platform. It has support of rich visualisation and views. Can be seamlessly integrated with elastic search.
Provides you the freedom to choose the shape of your data and you dont need to know what you are looking for, so you can start with one question and see it where it leads you.
It is browser based application and you can visualise data real time.
It has a plug and play architecture you can add various visualisations for it.
You can share the visualisations or dashboards with colleagues very easily. They can take the shareable link and embed it into their own application via an iframe.
Pillars of Kibana:
- DISCOVER
— Interactively explore data
— Access every document in every registered index
— Query filter and view search results
2. VISUALIZE
— Display a set of saved visualisation
— Arrange visualisation on go with real time data
3. DASHBAORD
— Used to design data visualisation
— Can be embedded onto as dashboard for interactive search
— Visualisation types are Area Chart, line chart , bar graph etc