Mark, Thanks for your reply, and for posting links to the Elasticon talks, I'll try to make sense of them for my project.
JM On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Mark Walkom <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALZqptawQ7AKSgctrLUhcy_inEm_PztyHc6JUqj1OAj0vTRbhA%40mail.gmail.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/CAEYi1X9X%2BdKwqdRRhzAb1nonu5Xg5-Bb%2Bmw_90u3f_Rw_CKjoA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X9X%2BdKwqdRRhzAb1nonu5Xg5-Bb%2Bmw_90u3f_Rw_CKjoA%40mail.gmail.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/CALZqpta62fxi%2B575wssOAiEiWHvmpax%3DUjFOoiCKxsku-aTzAg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
