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📊 Dashboards in Kibana

Dashboards allow you to visualize your data in a way that’s easy to understand. You can turn search results into:

  • 📈 Line graphs
  • 📊 Bar and pie charts
  • 🗺️ Maps
  • 💡 Metrics and tables

📁 Accessing Dashboards​

To open the dashboard tool:

  1. Click Analytics → Dashboards in the left menu.
  2. Select an existing dashboard from the list — or click Create dashboard to make a new one.

➕ Adding Visualizations​

Once inside a dashboard:

  1. Click + Create visualization.
  2. Choose a chart type (e.g., bar chart, map, gauge).
  3. Select the index (e.g., hcm-employees).
  4. Pick a field to visualize — like role, location, or createdAt.
  5. Customize the chart and click Save and return.

📌 You can repeat this to add multiple visualizations to a single dashboard.

🎯 Example: Visualizing Doctors by City​

You could create a bar chart to show how many doctors are based in each city:

  • Chart Type: Bar
  • X-Axis: city.keyword
  • Y-Axis: Count of documents

Save it to a dashboard called Doctors by City.

🗺️ Visualizing Locations​

If your data includes geo coordinates, you can:

  1. Choose a Maps or Coordinate Map visualization.
  2. Select your geo field (e.g., location).
  3. Watch your data appear on an interactive map!

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💾 Saving and Sharing Dashboards​

  • Click Save at the top to name your dashboard.
  • You can share dashboards with teammates, or embed them in reports.

📘 Summary​

Kibana dashboards let you turn complex data into useful visuals — with no code. You can:

  • Combine multiple charts in one view
  • Save dashboards and revisit them later
  • Explore insights by clicking into each chart

✅ Ready to go deeper? Up next: Setting up alerts and notifications.

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