Present Your Data

Sharing a Dashboard

Custom Branding

Direct Links

• Authentication require
  • unless you setup anonymous auth
• Also works for
  • saved searches
  • visualizations
• For a link to latest dashboard state
  • select either Saved Objects
  • or Snapshot from a saved dashboard
• For a link to current dashboard state
  • select Snapshot from an unsaved dashboard

Embed Code

• Embed dashboard as HTML code
  • internal company website / web page
• For user with no Kibana access
  • enable Kibana anonymous auth
  • xpack.security.sameSiteCookies: None

Kibana Reports

• A dashboard may also be shared as a report
  • PDF for printing
  • PNG for presentations

Report Generation

• Once created, the report will be available in Stack Managemnet
• The POST URL can also be used to create scheduled reporting
• Reports can be Downloaded and Deleted

Sharing With Users

Kibana RBAC Overview

• Role-based access control
• Kibana features
  • analytics
  • management
  • solutions
• Granted through config
  • space + role

ES Role Config

Kibana Role Config

Share a Dashboard through a Space

• Create a space
• Share Dashboard
  • copy to new space
• Create a role with read privileges
  • in the new space
  • for relevant indices
• Assign user to the new role

Create Space

• Go to the Spaces Manager from
  • Spaces Menu -> Manage spaces
  • Main menu -> Stack management -> Spaces
• Enable / Disable features
  • Dashboard is under Analytics

Copy Dashboard to Space

• Stack Management -> Saved Objects
  • Actions -> Copy to spaces
  • Select a space
  • Copy to space
• Related objects will also be copied
  • Data views
  • Saved searches
  • Visualizations

Create Role with Privileges

Assign a Role to a User

• Stack Management -> Users
  • Assign the Role to a User
• The new user will be able to access the new space with the shared dashboard

Alternatively

• Provide limited access in existing space
  • Create a role with limited privileges
    • in existing space
    • for relevant indices
  • Assign user to the new role

Anonymous Authentication

• Give users access to Kibana without requiring creds
  • making it easier to share specific dashboards for example
• Beware! All access to Kibana will be anonymous
  • make sure you restrict what the anonymous users can access

Canvas

• Pull live data
• Present using rich infographics
  • colors, images, text
  • charts, graphs, progress monitor
• Focus the data you want to display

Getting Started with Canvas

• To get started with Canvas:
  • click “Canvas” from the Kibana main menu
  • “Create workpad”, optionally using a “Template”
  • click “Add element” in the top left
• Elements can be placed anywhere and resized to achieve the desired layout

Static Elements

• Static content, like text and images, are simple to add
  • text uses Markdown

Visualization Library

• Any visualization that is saved to the library may be added as a Kibana element

Canvas Elements

• Canvas support many familiar elements
• And also some that are unique to Canvas

Data Sources

• Every Canvas element has a data source
• Several types of data source are supported:
  • ES SQL: data in ES, accessed using the ES SQL syntax
  • ES documents: data in ES, using the Lucene syntax
  • Demo data: small sample dataset that is used when you first create a new template
  • Timelion: data in ES, using the Timelion syntax

Canvas Expression

• Defines how to
  • retrieve data
  • manipulate
  • visualize in element
• Executes functions
  • produces outputs
  • passed on to next function

Functions

PDFs with Infographics

• Export a Workpad to PDF to generate a report with rich infographics