Ping! Can anyone suggest starting points on how to add visualizations to Kibana 4?
Cheers, JM On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > In the context of the development of an internal tool for my company > (Scality), I am trying to figure out how hard it is (ie. estimate > development cost) to extend Kibana 4 to add some visualization schemes. But > with my very limited knowledge of web dev, and zero knowledge of Kibana > internals, I think I better ask here for some help. :) > > My goal is to be able to represent a set of up to a few hundreds related > ES documents in two ways: > - one is a timeline view, like this: > https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/timeline > - another is a tree view, like this: > https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/orgchart > > The tree view would use specific fields in the docs that describe the > relations, ie. each doc has a doc_id and a parent_id that refers to a > certain doc_id (tree roots either have no parent_id field, or a magic > value). > > Similarly, the timeline view would use two time fields: start time and end > time, or start time and duration. And other optional fields could improve > the chart, eg. to group certain items into "swim lanes" ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swim_lane). > > So, how can we integrate something like that in Kibana? Can we just add a > bit of JS under > https://github.com/elasticsearch/kibana/tree/master/src/kibana/components/vislib/visualizations > and call some D3 magic and be done, or is it more complex than that? > > And regarding deployment of a new visualization: does Kibana 4 feature a > plugin mechanism similar to that of ES? > > If we can make this happen in our project, we'd certainly be willing to > contribute these features back to the community. Also, depending on the > cost/complexity, it's quite likely that we will want to hire a contractor > to do it (if you have a serious offer, please contact me directly). > > Thanks in advance for any piece of advice! > > Cheers, > JM > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1fb4d5d4-d825-4a42-b384-5acb5075ddb5%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1fb4d5d4-d825-4a42-b384-5acb5075ddb5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALZqptawQ7AKSgctrLUhcy_inEm_PztyHc6JUqj1OAj0vTRbhA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
