Kibana is the formerly open-source visualisation user interface that allows users to produce visualisations, reports and dashboards from a variety of data sources.
What is Kibana used for?
Due to its support for unstructured and semi-structured data, one of the leading use cases for Kibana is log and metrics analysis. Some of the most popular additional use cases for Kibana include the following, which have been listed alongside visual examples in our guide to Kibana dashboard examples:
- Centralised analytics dashboard for microservices
- Jenkins application monitoring
- Resource allocation reporting
- Data streaming dashboard
- Monitoring website uptime
- Automated test tracking
- Global data monitoring
- SIEM as a Service
- Firewall monitoring
- Tracking sign ups
- Linux monitoring
Some other more underutilised use cases for Kibana include its data visualisation capabilities for compliance auditing, IT operations monitoring and application performance monitoring.
