Kibana is a simple to use web app, which has allowed us to easily visualize or log files and statistics, we have been able to simply push our application log files to elastic search where kibana connects and visualizes the data in real time, being able to show realtime graphs on large displays has helped the support teams monitor to services we provide Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It isn't as straight forward to create and save dashboards and visualizations as it should be, the User interface isn't intuitive and isn't obvious where to go and what to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great visualizations and search provided over elasticsearch. I really like how elastic.co came up with the idea of building this and not let everyone recreate the same wheel. Its simplicity is the really great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not found it to be customizable but what it has is great. Other than that it has fit my use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The easy installation, easy of searching out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

querying is not easy. If you want to understand the underlaying querying, analyzers and tokenizer, it should take you some time. This is not trivial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Seems a bit faster (after the initial load/cache)

* Mobile support is nice

* CVS export data also helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Kibana 4 interface is more complicated than 3.

* Small things like finding out how to generate short urls is hard to find

* Re-creating saved dashboards in 4 wasn't a 1:1 parity transfer.

* Sometimes it's hard to find what you're looking for because the incoming logs are bleak. The flow is all over the place.

* The scrolling fixed position CSS they do is also quite annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to install and get going with Elasticsearch, with the ability to transform and manipulate the data as it is inserted allowing for better search results, and grouping of data for reporting. It ties in well with Logstash and Kibanna to create a one stop reporting platform and storage for all our logs from servers as well as our own developed software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Creating a Elastic cluster requires a lot of thought and planning, we have also had a few unexplained outages from elastic search were it would drop nodes from the cluster without warning and stop reporting from working Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The grok feature used to parse out the fields from raw logs using regular expressions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The internal memory consumption used by java for each application thread spawned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's open source, free, fast and the basic stack is quick to install and get running. The fact that it is well bundled with ELK (log stash and kibana) make it awesome for aggregating and searching logs. it also works really well as a cache for semistructured data and on top of a hadoop cluster. It's a great utility product for many uses from one cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a bit hard to optimize and if you don't carefully monitor it, you will have weird crashes and run out of memory or disk space. You need to follow the documentation carefully and watch the resources. Always make sure you have more RAM and DISK then you will need by at least 25%. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to deploy, easy to integration with exist infrastructure.

Pluggable front end management tool by head, easy monitoring and statistics by bigdesk.

Integration of customized analyzers.

Automatic cluster discovery by broadcast.

Easy integration with Logstash and Kibana for log visualization and searching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of a web front end for configuration management (like the indexing strategy, tokenizer strategy, data source, etc...)

Lack of indexing process tuning tool.

Lack of indexing process visualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is fast, it is robust, it's APIs are very very well designed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have any complains at the moment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kibana has a simple, clean, interface. I liked that it had the capacity to display really cool stuff, as seen in tutorials. The standard metrics and options for visualization were efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No pre-built templates for dashboarding, and limited in what can learn without seeking out video or blog tutorials or user boards. Having to first save a search and then a visualization, and then a dashboard was weird and confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.