# Kibana dashboard with text

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-with-text/102502>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 3, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-with-text/102502 "2017-10-03T02:09:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vijeshkk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/90db22/32.png) [@vijeshkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vijeshkk)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-with-text/102502/1 "2017-10-03T02:09:01Z")

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Hi,  
I have over 1000 servers in my environment and I am collecting 2 kinds of data for creating visualization using kibana,  
\* first one is a database data pulled by logstash mysql plugin. this data is basically the configuration management data for all servers.  
\* next is the metric and log data collected by beats and this is collected induvidually from each servers.

My requirement is to create a dashboard which shows each individual server performance and log data charts along with its configuration data such as location, rack number, serial number etc.

I am able to form the charts for performance and log data. But i am not sure how to display key & values (text) from configuration management data in text format. Please advise me the best solution for this problem. Thanks.

 ![2017-10-03_10h07_43](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/1/9144d9884dd3c875da8f04fe70bdf3f1fc545af4.png)

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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-with-text/102502/2 "2017-10-03T05:04:39Z")

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Perhaps , splitting rows with terms aggregation in _Data Table_ is closest to your requirement when using Dashboard?

If not could you elaborate how you want to aggregate your configuration management?

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**Author:** ![vijeshkk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/90db22/32.png) [@vijeshkk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vijeshkk)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-with-text/102502/3 "2017-10-03T05:17:43Z")

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Hi, I want to dsplay them in boxes with 'key' as the box label and 'value' as the text inside box. There is a 'metric' visualization type but it can display the number output only. I am looking for something similar to metric, but to display text values.

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**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-with-text/102502/4 "2017-10-03T07:29:21Z")

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I think best you could do with data table is below.

 ![data-table-sample](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/4/e4734f97211e23f375197e9f7d839488f61c6848.PNG)

Otherwise, I think it's better to write a kibana plugin with custom html.

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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:** [October 31, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-with-text/102502/5 "2017-10-31T07:29:24Z")

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