# About the Kibana category

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-kibana-category/22>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 22, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-kibana-category/22 "2015-04-22T15:36:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Leslie\_Hawthorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Leslie\_Hawthorn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Leslie_Hawthorn)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-kibana-category/22/1 "2015-04-22T15:36:09Z")

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## Your window into the Elastic Stack

Kibana is a free and open user interface that lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack. Do anything from tracking query load to understanding the way requests flow through your apps.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-kibana-category/22/3 "2017-07-06T13:31:27Z")

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