Author’s articles
May 26, 2026
Kibana dashboards as code: GitOps, drift detection and Terraform for Kibana dashboards in Elastic 9.4
Elastic 9.4 ships a typed Dashboards API and a native Terraform resource that bring drift detection, PR-reviewable diffs and git-based rollback to Kibana dashboards for the first time.
May 25, 2026
AI Chat in Kibana now natively renders dashboards
The Elastic AI Chat in Kibana now builds dashboards from natural language, keeping your visuals and analysis in one thread and letting you save them as reusable Kibana objects.
May 8, 2026
What’s new in Kibana Dashboards: flexible controls, improved defaults and a visual refresh
Kibana 9.4 ships a batch of dashboard improvements — from better defaults to layout controls to a visual refresh. Here's what changed and why.
March 26, 2026
Announcing read-only permissions for Kibana dashboards
Introducing read-only dashboards in Kibana, giving dashboard creators granular sharing controls to keep results accurate and protected from unwanted changes.
Improving Kibana dashboard interactivity with variable controls
Discover how to use variable controls in Kibana 8.18+ to filter individual visualizations, adjust time intervals, and group by different fields in Kibana dashboards.
January 22, 2025
Engineering a new Kibana dashboard layout to support collapsible sections & more
Building collapsible dashboard sections in Kibana required overhauling an embeddable system and creating a custom layout engine. These updates improve state management, hierarchy, and performance while setting the stage for new advanced dashboard features.