Kibana Field Formatter Plugin Examples

2 for the price of 1.

1. Dictionary Lookup

Converts an integer to a descption based on a dictionary lookup.

Includes a single dictionary:

• IP Protocol numbers to text-description. Useful for Flow Logs

Example: 6 => TCP

2. Nicely Formatted Floats

Converts an ugly number EG 0.0059 into 5.9 ms showing units and a reasonable level of precesion. Useful for big dashboards, where you need a simple-looking number with appropriate units.

Includes the following:

• SI Units (seconds, grams, meters & cake)
• Fractional prefixes
  • mili, micro, nano, pico
• Multiplier prefixes
  • kilo, mega, giga, tera
• Ability to control the precision required:
  • Significant digitis (fixed and optional)
  • Decimal Places (fixed and optional)

Bugs:

• Some combination of settings will show javascript scientific notation 1e+3 µs due to Math.toFixed & Math.toPrecision being uncontrollable. I didn't want to rely upon heafty 3rd-party libraries.

Requirements

Tested on Kibana 4.6

How to install

Simple clone:

• Simply clone the repo into installedPlugins, and restart Kibana. No NPM requirements.

or via the Kibana CLI:

• ./kibana plugin --install kibana-field-formatters -u https://github.com/vend/kibana-field-formatters/archive/master.zip

Useful Info

Tim Roes blog gives a great introduction to the evolving Kibana plugin system https://www.timroes.de/2015/12/02/writing-kibana-4-plugins-basics/