Create dashboards using AI

AI-powered tools let you create dashboards from natural language, without writing API requests or learning the dashboard schema. Use them to go from a question to a working dashboard through conversation, or to integrate dashboard generation into your own AI workflows.

Tool	When to use this	What you get
Elastic Agent Builder	Creating dashboards through conversation in Kibana or using the MCP server	Dashboard through chat that you save when ready
Kibana dashboards agent skill	Building your own AI agent or LLM tool that generates dashboards	Saved dashboard (using the API)

Tip

If you need to create dashboards from code or CI/CD pipelines using REST APIs, refer to Create dashboards programmatically instead.

Elastic Agent Builder

Elastic Agent Builder agents can create and update dashboards through natural language chat, using the chat UI in Kibana, the Chat API, or the MCP server. Describe what you want to visualize and the agent builds a dashboard with ES|QL-powered visualizations. Dashboards are in-memory by default and exist as conversation attachments until you save them, so you can iterate freely before finalizing.

Use Elastic Agent Builder when you want to:

Go from a question to a working dashboard without writing API requests or learning the schema
Explore an unfamiliar data source by asking the agent to surface and visualize key fields
Prototype a dashboard through conversation, then save it when you are satisfied
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability Preview This functionality is in technical preview and is ready for evaluation. Use with caution in production; it is not recommended for mission-critical workloads. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Specific Support terms apply. Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Planned We plan to add this functionality in a future Elastic Stack update. Subject to changes. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. Build layouts that other panel types can't express, with custom panels made from an HTML template and an optional ES|QL query
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability Preview This functionality is in technical preview and is ready for evaluation. Use with caution in production; it is not recommended for mission-critical workloads. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Specific Support terms apply. Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Planned We plan to add this functionality in a future Elastic Stack update. Subject to changes. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. Improve the text, layout, and chart styling of a dashboard you already built, by enhancing it with AI

Elastic Agent Builder generates ES|QL-powered visualizations, Vega-Lite visualizations, markdown panels, collapsible sections, and interactive filter controls.

Refer to Chat with Elastic Agent Builder agents.

Kibana dashboards agent skill

The kibana-dashboards agent skill is an open-source skill for integrating dashboard generation into your own AI tools. It provides language models with the context and instructions to generate valid dashboard definitions and call the Dashboards API, so you can build custom interfaces, automation scripts, or agentic pipelines that create Kibana dashboards without relying on the built-in Elastic Agent Builder experience.

Use the agent skill when you are:

Building a custom AI application that creates dashboards as part of a larger workflow
Integrating dashboard generation into an agentic pipeline outside the Kibana UI
Extending how an LLM interacts with the Dashboards API beyond the built-in capabilities of Elastic Agent Builder

The Elastic Agent Builder built-in tools use a similar mechanism internally. The agent skill is for teams who need the same capability in their own tooling.

Pair it with the elasticsearch-esql skill to give the agent the ability to discover available indices and fields before generating ES|QL queries for dashboard panels.