Welcome

Kibana is a pluggable platform that allows users to search, visualize and analyze data in Elasticsearch.

Kibana ships with many out-of-the-box capabilities that can be extended and enhanced by custom javascript plugins. Developers can also write their own custom applications.

Recommended next reading:

1. <DocLink id="kibDevTutorialSetupDevEnv" text="Set up your development environment" />
2. Create a <DocLink id="kibHelloWorldApp" text="Hello World plugin"/>.
3. <DocLink id="kibDevAddData" text="Add data" />.

Check out our <DocLink id="kibDevDocsApiWelcome" text="API documentation" /> to dig into the nitty gritty details of every public plugin API.