Add data

Building a feature and need an easy way to test it out with some data? Below are three options.

Sample data

Kibana ships with sample data that you can install at the click of the button. If you are building a feature and need some data to test it out with, sample data is a great option. The only limitation is that this data will not work for Security or Observability solutions (see #62962).

1. Navigate to the home page.
2. Click Add data.
3. Click on the Sample data tab.
4. Select a dataset by clicking on the Add data button.

CSV upload

1. If you don't have any data, navigate to Stack Management > Index Patterns and click the link to the uploader. If you do have data, navigate to the Machine Learning application.
2. Click on the Data Visualizer tab.
3. Click on Select file in the Import data container.

makelogs

The makelogs script generates sample web server logs. Make sure Elasticsearch is running before running the script.

node scripts/makelogs --auth <username>:<password>

Realistic solution data

Security and Observability solution applications only work if data exists in particularly named indices, abiding by our ECS format. If you would like to use these applications with realistic data, check out the oblt_cli tool. This tool sets you up to connect to a remote Elasticsearch cluster that contains the appropriate data via CCS.