You can drop things into the visualisations directory but you need to
understand how things are mapped between ES and KB.
There's actually a few talks on this coming at elastic{on}, so you'll see
the talks online very soon.
On 04/03/2015 4:48 pm, "Jean Marc Saffroy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>
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