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Kibana is your window into the Elastic Stack. Specifically, it's a browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.

Getting Started

If you just want to try Kibana out, check out the Elastic Stack Getting Started Page to give it a whirl.

If you're interested in diving a bit deeper and getting a taste of Kibana's capabilities, head over to the Kibana Getting Started Page.

Using a Kibana Release

If you want to use a Kibana release in production, give it a test run, or just play around:

Building and Running Kibana, and/or Contributing Code

You might want to build Kibana locally to contribute some code, test out the latest features, or try out an open PR:

Documentation

Visit Elastic.co for the full Kibana documentation.

For information about building the documentation, see the README in elastic/docs.

Version Compatibility with Elasticsearch

Ideally, you should be running Elasticsearch and Kibana with matching version numbers. If your Elasticsearch has an older version number or a newer major number than Kibana, then Kibana will fail to run. If Elasticsearch has a newer minor or patch number than Kibana, then the Kibana Server will log a warning.

Note: The version numbers below are only examples, meant to illustrate the relationships between different types of version numbers.

SituationExample Kibana versionExample ES versionOutcome
Versions are the same.7.15.17.15.1💚 OK
ES patch number is newer.7.15.07.15.1⚠️ Logged warning
ES minor number is newer.7.14.27.15.0⚠️ Logged warning
ES major number is newer.7.15.18.0.0🚫 Fatal error
ES patch number is older.7.15.17.15.0⚠️ Logged warning
ES minor number is older.7.15.17.14.2🚫 Fatal error
ES major number is older.8.0.07.15.1🚫 Fatal error

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