Pivot Table Plugin for Kibana 5

A visualization plugin for kibana 5.x .

Pivot tables are interactive tables that allow the user to group and summarize large amounts of data in a concise.

Basically a wrapper of Nicolas Kruchten's Pivot Table.

Feature

• drag and drop UI
• filtering
• charts

Installation

cd YOUR DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY
wget https://github.com/datavoyagerhk/kibana-pivot-table/releases/download/v0.1.0/pivot_table-v0.1.0.zip
$KIBANA_HOME/bin/kibana-plugin install file:///YOUR-DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY/pivot_table-v0.1.0.zip

example for Kibana installed with RPM on CentOS

wget https://github.com/datavoyagerhk/kibana-pivot-table/releases/download/v0.1.0/pivot_table-v0.1.0.zip
/usr/share/bin/kibana-plugin install file:///tmp/pivot_table-v0.1.0.zip

development

Setting up development environment

1. See the kibana contributing guide for instructions setting up your development environment. Once you have completed that, use the following npm tasks.

• npm start

  Start kibana and have it include this plugin

• npm start -- --config kibana.yml

  You can pass any argument that you would normally send to bin/kibana by putting them after -- when running npm start

• npm run build

  Build a distributable archive

• npm run test:browser

  Run the browser tests in a real web browser

• npm run test:server

  Run the server tests using mocha

For more information about any of these commands run npm run ${task} -- --help.

2. Clone this repository to the plugins folder of kibana.

3. Modify the contents of the config.json file to point to a local Kibana installation directory.

Coding guidelines

Please also see wiki of Nicolas Kruchten's Pivot Table.

Building a package

1. First go to the directory of the plugin

   cd $KIBANA_HOME/plugins/pivot_table
   

2. Modify the contents of package.json

   change the 'kibana' and '@elastic/plugin-helpers' version to the version of kibana you want to deploy.

3. Then create bundled zip file

   npm run build
   

The bundled zip file will locate in: cd $KIBANA_HOME/kibana/plugins/pivot_table/build