Users can create bar, line and scatter plots, or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data.

[4] Kibana also provides a presentation tool, referred to as Canvas, that allows users to create slide decks that pull live data directly from Elasticsearch.

[6] Logstash provides an input stream to Elasticsearch for storage and search, and Kibana accesses the data for visualizations such as dashboards.

[8] In December 2019, Elastic introduced Kibana Lens product, which is a simpler drag-and-drop user interface than the original aggregation based visualizations.

[10] In August 2024 the GNU Affero General Public License was added as an option, making Kibana free and open-source once again.