20.10.5 Creating Visualization

You can create a custom dashboard by creating a set of custom visualizations using Kibana and add them to the dashboard.

  1. Click the Visualize icon .

  2. Click Create new visualization.

  3. Select a visualization type. For example, let us use the Horizontal Bar chart. You can follow the same procedure for other types of visualization.

  4. In the New Horizontal Bar/Choose a source, select historic or realtime.

  5. Add a filter from the displayed options. Such as @timestamp, @version. You can also use the Kibana Query Language (KQL) or the Lucene query syntax for simplified query.

  6. Select the dates in Commonly used or Recently used date ranges.

  7. Set the refresh interval in seconds, minutes, or hours.

    A graph is generated based on your selection. You can configure the chart to match your preferences. You can organize your data by using Metrics and Buckets.

    • Metrics: Contains options to quantify the data with count, average, sum, max/min, and so forth.

    • Buckets: Contains aggregations of data that are sorted according to your search criteria.

  8. Click Update.You can visualize the created graph.

Saving a Visualization

After creating a visualization, click Confirm Save and specify a name.

You can also use an existing visualization to create a clone or a copy of that visualization.

  1. Click Visualize.

  2. Select the required visualization.

  3. Use the edit icon to customize the visualization.

  4. Click the slider and Save as a new visualization with a different Title.

  5. Click Confirm Save.