Introducing Kibana Lens: An Instinctive Way to Explore and Visualize Data
Posted on 06 December 2019
Elastic N.V., the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, is excited to announce the arrival of Kibana Lens, a significant step forward in making data visualization and exploration with the Elastic Stack even easier and more intuitive.
Kibana is, and has always been, the best way to visualize data stored in Elasticsearch and to navigate the Elastic Stack. With 7.5, Elastic is introducing Kibana Lens — an entirely new way to craft visualizations. It is designed to work the way users think, letting users rapidly go from raw data to meaningful visualization without needing any previous technical experience or knowledge of Elasticsearch. It starts with a new drag-and-drop experience, along with the ability to easily switch between chart types and different index patterns. As the user adds fields to the chart, Lens provides smart suggestions to show other views of the data. Combined with the speed of Elasticsearch, Lens makes it faster and easier than ever to visualize, explore, and understand data.
Lens is a major milestone in the Elastic journey, and Elastic is excited to continue building and taking it forward. Capabilities like supporting more charts, adding even smarter suggestions, supporting more functions, and allowing for more customizations are at the top of Elastic’s roadmap.