Create or Edit Existing Dashboards

Create dashboards

• To understand how to create dashboards in Kibana, refer to this guide: Create a Dashboard of Panels.

Edit existing dashboards

• Open the desired dashboard.

• Click on the 'Edit' button.

• Click on the “Edit Visualisation” option on the specific chart you want to edit.

• Check the chart type and data view from which the data is being fetched.

• Click on “Edit Lens” to get an overview of the available and selected fields in the respective data view.

• You can go to the respective data view under Stack Management -> Saved Objects, update the indexes, and add a timestamp filter for the respective chart.

View or edit queries to fetch metric data

• After going back to the “Edit Visualisation”, you can see the metrics that are shown in the chart here, as shown in the image below:

• Click on the desired metric for which you want to view/edit the query.

View data sources

• To see which index a data view is pulling the data from, check the respective data views in Stack Management -> Data Views.

• If you need to create your own data views, follow this guide: Creating Data Views in Kibana.

• For example, if you click on “Edit Visualisation” on a chart, you will see that the table chart is getting data from the DV-PT-PJT data view.

• You can then view the DV-PT-PJT data, check the indices from where the data is getting pulled, and add a timestamp filter according to your requirements.