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[[whats-new]]
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== What's New in Kibana 4
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Kibana 4 provides dozens of new features that enable you to compose questions,
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get answers, and solve problems like never before. It has a brand-new look and
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feel and improved workflows for discovering and visualizing your data and
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building and sharing dashboards.
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[[key-features]]
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=== Key Features
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* New data search and discovery interface
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* Unified visualization builder for your favorite visualizations and some brand
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new ones:
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** Area Chart
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** Data Table
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** Line Chart
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** Markdown Text Widget
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** Pie Chart (including "doughnut" charts)
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** Raw Document Widget
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** Single Metric Widget
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** Tile Map
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** Vertical Bar Chart
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* Drag and drop dashboard builder that enables you to quickly add, rearrange,
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resize, and remove visualizations
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* Advanced aggregation-based analytics capabilities, including support for:
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** Unique counts (cardinality)
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** Non-date histograms
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** Ranges
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** Significant terms
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** Percentiles
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* Expressions-based scripted fields enable you to perform ad-hoc analysis by
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performing computations on the fly
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[[improvements]]
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=== Improvements
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* Ability to save searches and visualizations enables you to link
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searches to visualizations and add the same visualization to multiple dashboards
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* Visualizations support an unlimited number of nested aggregations so you can
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display new types of visualizations, such as "doughnut" charts
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* New URL format eliminates the need for templated and scripted dashboards
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* Better mobile experience
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* Faster dashboard loading due to a reduction in the number HTTP calls needed to load the page
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* SSL encryption for client requests as well as requests to and from Elasticsearch
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* Search result highlighting
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* Easy to access and export the data behind any visualization:
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** View in a table or view as JSON
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** Export in CSV format
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** See the Elasticsearch request and response
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* Share and embed individual visualizations as well as dashboards
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[[nuts-bolts]]
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=== Nuts and Bolts
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* Ships with its own webserver and uses Node.js on the backend--installation
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binaries are provided for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS
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* Uses the D3 framework to display visualizations
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