Panels and visualizations

Kibana provides many options to create panels with visualizations of your data and add content to your dashboards. From advanced charts, maps, and metrics to plain text and images, multiple types of panels with different capabilities are available.

Use one of the editors to create visualizations of your data. Each editor offers various capabilities.

Content	Panel type	Description
Visualizations	Lens	Create powerful charts in Kibana. This is the default editor.
	ES\|QL	Create visualizations from ES\|QL queries
	Discover sessions The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Generally available since 9.4 This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. 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. Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability Generally available This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments.	Create a Discover session directly in your dashboard. Saved sessions can be added to multiple dashboards from the dashboard Add menu.
	Maps	Create beautiful displays of your geographical data
	Alerts	View Observability or Security alerts in your dashboard
	Vega or custom visualizations	Use Vega to create new types of visualizations
	Custom panels 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. 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.	Build a panel from an HTML, CSS, and Liquid template with an optional ES\|QL query. Generate it with Elastic Agent Builder chat or write it yourself.

Annotations and navigation	Collapsible sections	Organize your dashboard into sections that can be collapsed and save loading time
	Markdown text	Add context to your dashboard with markdown-based text
	Image	Personalize your dashboard with custom images
	Links	Add links to other dashboards or to external websites
	Controls	Add interactive filters (options lists, range sliders, time sliders, and ES\|QL variable controls) so viewers can explore data without writing queries

Machine Learning and Analytics	Anomaly swim lane	Display the results from machine learning anomaly detection jobs
	Anomaly chart	Display an anomaly chart from the Anomaly Explorer
	Single metric viewer	Display an anomaly chart from the Single Metric Viewer
	Change point detection	Display a chart to visualize change points in your data

Observability	SLO overview	Visualize a selected SLO's health, including name, current SLI value, target, and status
	SLO Alerts	Visualize one or more SLO alerts, including status, rule name, duration, and reason. In addition, configure and update alerts, or create cases directly from the panel.
	SLO Error Budget	Visualize the consumption of your SLO's error budget

Legacy	Aggregation based Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability Unavailable This functionality is not available in Elastic Cloud Serverless.	Create visualizations including area, line, and pie charts and split them up to three aggregation levels. While these panel types are still available, we recommend using Lens instead.
	TSVB Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability Unavailable This functionality is not available in Elastic Cloud Serverless.	Visualize time-based data through various panel types

Note

Legacy panel types only appear in the dashboard Add menu if you already have such panels in your dashboards. If you have never used these panel types, use Lens instead.