Creating and using Kibana dashboards

In this guide, we will integrate all previously created visualizations into a comprehensive dashboard consisting of multiple panels. Additionally, we will explore how to enhance user interaction using control-based drilldowns.

Getting ready

Make sure to complete the following recipes from this chapter:

• Creating visualizations with Kibana Lens
• Creating visualizations from runtime fields
• Creating Kibana maps

At the end of this recipe, you will have dashboards composed of the various visualizations and elements built into the aforementioned recipes.

How to do it...

Building dashboards is very straightforward in Kibana, especially if you’ve already created some visualizations. Follow these steps:

1. Go to Kibana | Analytics | Dashboard and click on Create dashboard.

   This will bring you to a blank canvas, where you can start adding some visualizations.

2. We will start by adding a nice image! You can be...