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Data Visualization with Kibana (Udemy.com)

Visualize and analyze data with Kibana, part of the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana) and Elastic Stack.

Created by: Bo Andersen

Last updated March 2024

Our take

Based on the ratings of 5,830 students and a sample of their written reviews, the syllabus, the course as of March 2024. No course pays to be reviewed.

This is a short, focused Kibana course: about 5.5 hours over 59 lectures, split into getting started, the interface, visualizations, dashboards, and users, roles and spaces. It is aimed at developers who already have some Elasticsearch and want to learn the front end of the stack properly instead of clicking around. That prerequisite is real. One reviewer who came in from scratch said the setup was challenging, and another who knew Elasticsearch well said that is what let the material land. Around 32,500 students have enrolled and it carries Udemy's Highest Rated badge in its niche.

Students like Bo Andersen's teaching. One reviewer calls him lively and careful about building a foundation step by step; another came in knowing almost nothing and left confident building visualizations and managing access for a cluster. The complaints cluster around age. The course was last updated in March 2024, and the Kibana interface has moved on since. Several reviewers say menus and options in the videos no longer match what they see, and one asks for a note explaining where the legacy aggregation-based visualizations now live. Others wanted more: Lens, Canvas, and the reporting and alerting the syllabus promises but two reviewers say is missing.

The 4.5 rating from about 5,800 reviews holds up, with roughly nine in ten giving four or five stars, so the age problem is an annoyance rather than a dealbreaker for most. Think of it as a fast way to get the ideas straight, then expect to translate a few clicks to the current UI. If you want the whole ELK stack in one purchase, the broader Elastic Stack courses beside it cover more ground. If Kibana is the missing piece, this is the one to get.

Best forDevelopers who already know some Elasticsearch and want to build dashboards and manage users without sitting through a full ELK course.
Skip it ifYou have never touched Elasticsearch, or you need Lens, Canvas, alerting or the latest Kibana interface shown on screen.

Pros

  • Bo Andersen builds things step by step; one reviewer went from knowing nothing to confident with visualizations
  • Covers users, roles and spaces, so cluster security is included, not just charts
  • Short at 5.5 hours, with a 105 minute visualizations section as the core
  • 4.5 stars across 5,830 reviews, about 90 percent of them four or five stars

Cons

  • Last updated March 2024, so menus and some visualization options no longer match current Kibana
  • Reporting and alerting are listed as outcomes but two reviewers say they are not covered
  • No Lens or Canvas, and no quizzes or exercises to practice on
The instructor was great. He keeps things lively while carefully building a good foundation step-by-step.
Robert Atchison, a student

Listed as all levels, but it assumes basic Elasticsearch; one reviewer starting from scratch found the setup challenging.

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What you will learn

  • Fundamentals of Kibana
  • Securing Kibana (users, roles, and spaces)
  • Creating basic & advanced visualizations
  • Kibana Query Language (KQL)
  • Creating and interacting with dashboards
  • Reporting and Alerting

Course content

5 sections · 59 lectures · 5.5 hours of video 2 articles

  1. 1Getting Started 6 free previews13 lectures · 1.1 hours
  2. 2Introduction to the interface 1 free preview8 lectures · 56 min
  3. 3Visualizations 1 free preview20 lectures · 1.8 hours
  4. 4Dashboards 2 free previews8 lectures · 34 min
  5. 5Users, Roles & Spaces 1 free preview10 lectures · 1.1 hours

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • Developers wanting to work with and visualize Elasticsearch data

What you need before you start

  • Basic understanding of Elasticsearch

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Overall Score : 90 / 100

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Course Description

Are you a software developer, and do you want to learn Kibana? Then look no further — you have come to the right place! This course is the best way for you to quickly learn Kibana and put your knowledge to use within just a few hours. Forget about watching countless of YouTube tutorials, webinars, and blog posts; this course is the single resource you need to learn Kibana. In fact, this is by far the most comprehensive course on Kibana you will find!

So what is Kibana, and why should you take the time to learn it? Kibana is part of the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and the Elastic Stack. It's often referred to as the window into Elasticsearch. With Kibana, you can visualize the data stored within an Elasticsearch cluster. This includes everything from running ad hoc queries, creating visualizations such as line charts and pie charts, and displaying data on dashboards. Kibana enables you to easily interact with your data, providing a much better experience than writing Elasticsearch queries. Slicing and dicing data is easy, and navigating between different datasets can be done without losing context. As such, Kibana is an excellent tool for data analysis, exploration, and investigation. Dashboards are a key feature, enabling us to provide ourselves and teams with overviews of relevant data. For instance, we could create a dashboard for a sales department, and another for software engineers.

Kibana is also commonly used for monitoring data, for instance in the context of observability. By using Kibana and the Elastic Stack for observability, you can gain insight into the performance of applications (APM), monitor service uptime, keep an eye on hardware and service utilization, etc. Apart from that, Kibana is also frequently used for security analysis and managing machine learning jobs.

Needless to say, Kibana is an incredibly powerful tool for visualizing, analyzing, and monitoring Elasticsearch data.

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Instructor Details

Bo Andersen

My name is Bo Andersen and I am a software engineer from Denmark.

I currently work as the lead developer and partner at a startup company, apart from teaching here at Udemy. I have previously worked at a very successful company, operating one of the largest websites in Denmark, before deciding to teach software engineering.

I have worked with programming for a decade and have a bachelor's degree in computer science. I started out learning to code by building websites in my spare time, and have since worked with many technologies such as Python, PHP, Postgres, MySQL, Docker, AWS, etc. Apart from the ELK Stack  (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and Elastic Stack, of course.

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Reviews

4.5

5,830 ratings on Udemy

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By Jurriaan de Gier on 11/11/2025

The course itself is relatively straightforward, but utterly hamstringed by the fact that the interface has changed (and will continue to change). It would very nice if there was an additional 1 min lecture at the start of Section 3: Visualizations in which it is shown how to get to the used visualizations (Legacy -> Aggregation-based). It would also be good if it was more explicit that the last drilldown dashboard (in Section 4, that links orders and access-logs) should not be saved. Since saving it interferes with what is shown in Section 5 for spaces

By Marcus Mellor on 9/26/2024

A very good course, which really helped me get to grips with the basics. I struggled at times, though, as I am using OpenSearch where some features have different names and are not available. I feel having a simple slide, explaining this would have been super helpful, just like in the Elastic course. Some worked examples on Document Level Security for something like where a user works (ie Department), would have also been really helpful. The first of these suggestions would have given an extra half a star, and the last the full 5.

By Amnon HOPPE on 10/17/2023

Thing are explained really well at the right pace if you pay attention. There are several areas that could be updated, following the changes of Elastic in newer versions, but sometimes this is helpful as well, as you spend more time finding the new equivalents, you get deeper knowledge of the GUI romaing around. All examples are useful and almost everything is touched.

By Jan Noordam on 1/30/2023

Niet eerder was ik in aanraking geweest met Kibana. Door deze cursus heb ik mooie opstap gemaakt om met Kibana aan de slag te kunnen gaan. Enigzins jammer dat de in de training gebruikte versie niet in overeenstemming was met de versie (v8) die ik in gebruik heb. Desondanks ben ik nu in staat om zelf een dashboard te bouwen wat ik voor de training niet kon.

By Sean Milligan on 12/9/2022

Great review of Kibana. Bo does a great job. He stays "on topic" and discusses "how to leverage" the Kibana dashboard. From Visualizations to Dashboards to Roles/Users/Spaces. In no time at all i fel comfortable navigating the kibana dashboard and building visualizations to be used in dashboards. Bo is easy to listen to, articulate and is able quickly communicate abstract concepts/relationships. I am hopeful my porfessional development requires me to use Bo's other material.

By Ajith on 3/24/2022

What an amazing course! Every topic covered is explained very well. The topics explained here can directly be applied at work. Thank you so much Bo Anderson for creating this amazing course. I also took Bo's Elasticsearch course and finished it before this one. The elastic knowledge definitely helps!

By Peter Merikan on 12/28/2021

Great course. It shows you how to create querys, dashboards and drilldowns in a very easy and understandable way. The pace of the course is excellent and it is easy to follow along. I have jumped back to this course a couple of times just to refresh my knowledge.

By Pedro Alves on 10/11/2021

The course contains plenty of information in all areas of Kibana. Didn't give five stars because it is a course focused strictly in Kibana but I think a small project should be implemented in order to solve a certain use case with the this tool. Additionally, parts like monitoring and/alerts and machine learning aren't taught. Maybe in a near future update to the course they are included ;)

By Jose Ladao on 2/13/2021

Good enough for the beginners. I learned a lot from this course. The Instructor makes it so easy to follow and experiment. The best way to learn this course is by practicing what you have learned. I am lucky that I have Kirbana at work and I am able to play around

By Esorensendea on 1/23/2021

The course was great for getting started with Kibana. Some of the content differ (apps and menus). The reason for requiring the trial license was not sufficiently articulated (it enables user management in the last slides). One Dashboard (customers) was not created in the course, but other slides referred to and used it. But otherwise I feel I have a good start with Kibana. I can recommend the course.

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