What's Cookin' in Kibana?

Much has happened in Kibana since 5.0, as we've doubled down on new stack management and data visualization capabilities like never before.

Court and Jim will go through some rad features that have been released since 5.0, and will then highlight some of the most exciting changes that will be shipping in upcoming releases.

Heatmap, log context, pipeline aggregations, CSV export . . . and that's just the start!

Court Ewing l Kibana Tech Lead l Elastic
Jim Goodwin l Kibana Team Lead l Elastic

Transcript

1. Elastic March 7, 2017 What's Cookin' in Kibana? Court Ewing, Tech Lead and Jim Goodwin, Team Lead
2. Kibana, then and now
3. 3 Kibana: Then
4. 4 Kibana: Now
5. What’s new since Kibana 5.0?
6. 6 Tag Cloud Size indicates “importance” of terms relevant to other terms · Works for any data · Great for log data Released Kibana 5.1.1
7. 7 Tag Cloud Size indicates “importance” of terms relevant to other terms · Works for any data · Great for log data Released Kibana 5.1.1
8. 8 Heatmap Color indicates metric values relative to other data points · Works for any data · Great for metric data Released Kibana 5.2.0
9. 9 Tribe support As simple as: elasticsearch.tribe.url No jumping through hoops. Released Kibana 5.2.0
10. 10 This is a sample image Advanced Monitoring 14 charts and counting… Including cgroup information for all the container folk Released Kibana 5.1.1
11. 11 Logstash Monitoring Released Kibana 5.2.0 Out of the box monitoring for your Logstash nodes. Logstash gets in on this X-Pack bonanza
12. 12 This is a sample image Search Profiler UI The most sought after answers in the universe: · Why is my query slow? · Will this tweak make it faster? Released Kibana 5.1.1
13. 13 Enhance! 18 zoom levels on tile map visualizations Free in X-Pack Basic Released Kibana 5.2.0
14. 14 Fastbana Improved rendering performance everywhere Released Kibana 5.1.1 50% better CPU usage when activity indicator is present Take that, global warming!
15. 15 This is a sample image Fastbana Large number of fields? No problem! Discover eats large number of fields for breakfast. Released Kibana 5.1.1
16. 16 This is a sample image Fastbana Exclude unnecessary large fields from being processed in Discover “Why are we even searching against this binary data?” Released Kibana 5.1.1
17. 17 I18N, phase 1 Adheres to browser preference for language Translations as plugins Thanks IBM! Completed in Kibana 5.2.0
18. And more! 19 other enhancements 50+ bug fixes Just in open source alone 18 Since Kibana 5.0.0:
19. What’s next for Kibana?
20. Discovery Roadmap 20 Overview of high priority Discovery work Log event context Unified/enhanced query+filter bar Export of CSV
21. Discovery Roadmap 21 Overview of high priority Discovery work Log event context Unified/enhanced query+filter bar Export of CSV
22. Discovery Roadmap 22 Overview of high priority Discovery work Log event context Unified/enhanced query+filter bar Export of CSV
23. Discovery Roadmap 23 Overview of high priority Discovery work Log event context Unified/enhanced query+filter bar Export of CSV
24. Visualize Roadmap 24 Overview of high priority Visualize work Top hits aggregation Chart improvements Enhanced tilemaps with geo-centroid support New visualizations - vectormap, pivot table Timeseries builder
25. Visualize Roadmap 25 Overview of high priority Visualize work Top hits aggregation Chart improvements Enhanced tilemaps with geo-centroid support New visualizations - vectormap, pivot table Timeseries builder
26. Visualize Roadmap 26 Overview of high priority Visualize work Top hits aggregation Chart improvements Enhanced tilemaps with geo-centroid support New visualizations - vectormap, pivot table Timeseries builder
27. Visualize Roadmap 27 Overview of high priority Visualize work Top hits aggregation Chart improvements Enhanced tilemaps with geo-centroid support New visualizations - vectormap, pivot table Timeseries builder
28. Visualize Roadmap 28 Overview of high priority Visualize work Top hits aggregation Chart improvements Enhanced tilemaps with geo-centroid support New visualizations - vectormap, pivot table Timeseries builder
29. Sharing Roadmap 29 Overview of high priority Sharing work Improved dashboard workflow and UX View/edit mode for dashboards Improved management/navigation of saved objects CSV Reports Control over report layout
30. Sharing Roadmap 30 Overview of high priority Sharing work Improved dashboard workflow and UX View/edit mode for dashboards Improved management/navigation of saved objects CSV Reports Control over report layout
31. Sharing Roadmap 31 Overview of high priority Sharing work Improved dashboard workflow and UX View/edit mode for dashboards Improved management/navigation of saved objects CSV Reports Control over report layout
32. Sharing Roadmap 32 Overview of high priority Sharing work Improved dashboard workflow and UX View/edit mode for dashboards Improved management/navigation of saved objects CSV Reports Control over report layout
33. Sharing Roadmap 33 Overview of high priority Sharing work Improved dashboard workflow and UX View/edit mode for dashboards Improved management/navigation of saved objects CSV Reports Control over report layout
34. Sharing Roadmap 34 Overview of high priority Sharing work Improved dashboard workflow and UX View/edit mode for dashboards Improved management/navigation of saved objects CSV Reports Control over report layout
35. Management Roadmap 35 Overview of high priority Management work Kibana first-run improvements Ingest Node Pipeline UI Watcher UI
36. Management Roadmap 36 Overview of high priority Management work Kibana first-run improvements Ingest Node Pipeline UI Watcher UI
37. Management Roadmap 37 Overview of high priority Management work Kibana first-run improvements Ingest Node Pipeline UI Watcher UI
38. Management Roadmap 38 Overview of high priority Management work Kibana first-run improvements Ingest Node Pipeline UI Watcher UI
39. Monitoring Roadmap 39 Overview of high priority Monitoring work Cluster Alerts Logstash Pipeline Monitoring
40. Monitoring Roadmap 40 Overview of high priority Monitoring work Cluster Alerts Logstash Pipeline Monitoring
41. Monitoring Roadmap 41 Overview of high priority Monitoring work Cluster Alerts Logstash Pipeline Monitoring
42. Operations Roadmap 42 Overview of high priority Operations work Migration assistance for 6.0 Build improvements
43. Operations Roadmap 43 Overview of high priority Operations work Migration assistance for 6.0 Build improvements • Instant Plugin Installs • No more long cycles of optimization • No more Kibana loading screen
44. Kibana for developers
45. const cluster = getCluster('data') cluster.callWithRequest(request, 'cluster.health') .then(response => { console.log(`cluster status is: ${response.status}`) }) As of 5.2.0, specify the Elasticsearch cluster you want to query Kibana is now Elasticsearch cluster-aware 45
46. 46 Goodbye, “optimizer”... A better build system is coming 1 Build code incrementally to make it fast 2 Rebuild it every time it changes 3 Still powered by webpack, but not shipping webpack 4 Instant plugin install with no more corrupted bundles No more load screen 5
47. 47 Hello, consistency. A new platform emerges 1 Standard set of services that take into account Kibana’s lifecycle 2 Code on the server and browser looks the same 3 Code in core and in plugins looks the same 4 Clear contracts between different parts of Kibana and plugins Documented and stable plugin API 5
48. New UI code will use React Angular.js will be replaced over time Plugins will not be forced to use any one rendering technology 48 class ReactQuestionMark { render() { return ( <h1>Yes, please!</h1> ) } } So long angular, thanks for all the fish! React
49. Stateless React components as building blocks for all user interface Styled by Sass out of the box Made with love 49 .kuiButton { display: inline-block; cursor: pointer; &:disabled { pointer-events: none; } } Sassy! UI Component Framework
50. Other Kibana sessions
51. • Wednesday 10am BoF Securing Kibana Dashboards • Wednesday 10:30am Spotlight Theater IBM: Kibana Internationalization • Wednesday 11:00am Main Stage What's X‑citing in X‑Pack? • Wednesday 1:15pm BoF Kibana Visualizations • Wednesday 2:15pm Spotlight Theater Correlating Metrics and Logs • Thursday 8:00am Side Stage X-Pack Enablement Training • Thursday 10:00am Main Stage Timelion: Magic, Math, and Everything in the Middle • Thursday 1:45pm Main Stage Visualizations in Kibana Our other Kibana sessions 51 Some of the upcoming Presentations and Birds of a Feather sessions for Kibana
52. 52 Questions? Visit us at the AMA