Kibana Guide: other versions:
Introduction
Set Up Kibana
- Installing Kibana
- Starting and stopping Kibana
- Configuring Kibana
- Running Kibana on Docker
- Accessing Kibana
- Connect Kibana with Elasticsearch
- Using Kibana in a production environment
- Upgrading Kibana
  - Standard upgrade
  - Troubleshooting saved object migrations
- Configuring monitoring
- Configuring security
Getting Started
- Get up and running with sample data
- Explore Kibana using the Flight dashboard
- Building your own dashboard
Discover
- Setting the time filter
- Searching Your Data
- Filtering by Field
- Viewing Document Data
- Viewing Document Context
- Viewing Field Data Statistics
Visualize
- Creating a Visualization
- Using rolled up data in a visualization
- Line, Area, and Bar charts
- Controls Visualization
  - Adding Input Controls
  - Global Options
- Data Table
- Markdown Widget
- Metric
- Goal and Gauge
- Pie Charts
- Coordinate Maps
- Region Maps
- Timelion
- TSVB
- Tag Clouds
- Heatmap Chart
- Vega Graphs
- Inspecting Visualizations
Dashboard
- Building a Dashboard
- Arranging Dashboard Elements
- Inspecting a Visualization from the Dashboard
- Sharing a Dashboard
Canvas
- Getting started with Canvas
  - Create a workpad
- Canvas function reference
Graph data connections
- Using Graph
- Configuring Graph
- Troubleshooting
- Limitations
Machine learning
- Anomaly detection
Maps
- Getting started with Maps
- Heat map layer
- Tile layer
- Vector layer
  - Terms join
  - Vector style
- Searching your data
- Connecting to Elastic Maps Service
Infrastructure
- Monitor your infrastructure
- Using the Infrastructure UI
Logs
- Using the Logs UI
APM
- Getting Started
- Visualizing Application Bottlenecks
- Using APM
Uptime
- Overview
- Monitor
- Use with Elasticsearch Security
Dev Tools
- Console
- Profiling queries and aggregations
- Debugging grok expressions
Monitoring
- Beats Metrics
- Cluster Alerts
- Elasticsearch Metrics
- Kibana Metrics
- Logstash Metrics
- Troubleshooting
Management
- License Management
- Index patterns
  - Cross-cluster search
- Rollup jobs
- Index lifecycle policies
- Managing Fields
- Managing Indices
- Setting advanced options
- Managing Saved Objects
- Managing Beats
- Working with remote clusters
- Spaces
- Security
  - Authorization
  - Kibana privileges
- Watcher UI
- Upgrade Assistant
- Kibana Dashboard Only Mode
  - Advanced Configuration for Dashboard Only Mode
Reporting from Kibana
- Getting Started
- Automating Report Generation
- Deprecated Report URLs
- PDF Layout Modes
- Configuring Reporting
- Troubleshooting
- Reporting Integration
REST API
- Kibana Spaces API
- Kibana Role Management API
- Saved Objects API
- Dashboard Import API
  - Import Dashboard
  - Export Dashboard
- Logstash Configuration Management API
- URL Shortening API
  - Shorten URL
- Upgrade Assistant API
Kibana plugins
- Install plugins
- Update and remove plugins
- Disable plugins
- Configure the plugin manager
- Known Plugins
Limitations
Release Highlights
- 7.0.0
Breaking Changes
- 7.0
Release Notes
- Kibana 7.0.1
- Kibana 7.0.0
- Kibana 7.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 7.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 7.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 7.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 7.0.0-alpha1
Developer guide
- Core Development
- Plugin Development
- Developing Visualizations
- Add Data Guide
- Security
  - Role-based access control
- Pull request review guidelines

IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

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Kibana privileges

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IMPORTANT: This documentation is no longer updated. Refer to Elastic's version policy and the latest documentation.

Kibana privileges

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This section lists the Kibana privileges that you can assign to a role.

`all`	All Kibana privileges, can read, write and delete saved searches, dashboards, visualizations, short URLs, Timelion sheets, graph workspaces, index patterns and advanced settings.
`read`	Can read saved searches, dashboards, visualizations, short URLs, Timelion sheets, graph workspaces, index patterns, and advanced settings.

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