Build dashboards

Kibana offers many ways to build powerful dashboards that will help you visualize and keep track of the most important information contained in your Elasticsearch data.

Create and assemble visualizations such as charts or maps, and enrich them with helpful legends containing key data.
Extract and show key indicators and metrics to keep them visible and highlighted at all times.
Add text, images, and links to help viewers make the most of your dashboard.
Include additional controls to facilitate filtering and browsing the data.

To create or edit dashboards, you first need to:

have data indexed into Elasticsearch and a data view. A data view is a subset of your Elasticsearch data, and allows you to load just the right data when building a visualization or exploring it.

If you don’t have data at hand and still want to explore dashboards, you can import one of the sample data sets available.
have sufficient permissions on the Dashboard feature. If that’s not the case, you might get a read-only indicator. A Kibana administrator can grant you the required privileges.

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