Timelion was released in November 2015 and with the 4.4.2 release of Kibana is available as a native visualisation once installed. It adds some powerful capabilities to Kibana as an timeseries analysis tool, using its own data manipulation language. Installing Timelion is a piece of cake: ./bin/kibana plugin -i kibana/timelion After restarting Kibana, you’ll see it as an option from the application picker There’s a bit of a learning curve with Timelion, but it’s worth it.

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