Introduction to Canvas

This section presents the key aspects of Canvas by walking through some live examples using Canvas itself. Canvas is part of the default distribution of the Elastic Stack as of version 6.5.

What is Canvas?

As explained previously, Canvas is a place for you to build highly custom-tailored reports with a set a customizable elements. The experience in Canvas is very different from standard Kibana dashboards. Canvas presents you with a workspace where you can build sets of slides (similar in concept to Microsoft PowerPoint) called the workpad.

Here is a screenshot of an empty Canvas Workpad:

As we can see, the workspace has a blank page where you can place and position components called elements. Elements...