From 1320ba8fdce906c4469c432f0ac606843728e1be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florent Le Borgne Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:53:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Improve Lens intro --- explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md b/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md index ba1ab07130..a186932b1d 100644 --- a/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md +++ b/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md @@ -13,8 +13,15 @@ products: # Lens [lens] +**Lens** is Kibana's drag-and-drop visualization builder that lets you create charts without writing queries. You drag fields onto the canvas, and Kibana suggests the best visualization types for your data. -To create a visualization, drag the data fields you want to visualize to the workspace, then **Lens** uses visualization best practices to apply the fields and create a visualization that best displays the data. +These fields come from your data indices stored in Elasticsearch. When you bring data into Elasticsearch, like logs, metrics, or business data, each piece of information becomes a "field" - things like timestamps, user names, error codes, or sales amounts. + +Lens doesn't directly look into your {{es}} indices. You first need to specify a [data view](/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/data-views.md) that tells Kibana which indices to look at. When you open Lens and select a data view, you see all the fields from that data as a list you can drag and drop to build visualizations. + +:::{tip} +If you collected data using one of the {{kib}} [ingest options](/manage-data/ingest.md), uploaded a file, or added sample data, you likely have a {{data-source}} created automatically, and can start exploring your data. If not, you must create one yourself. +::: With **Lens**, you can: @@ -26,7 +33,7 @@ With **Lens**, you can: * Add annotations and reference lines. -### Create visualizations [create-the-visualization-panel] +## Create visualizations [create-the-visualization-panel] If you’re unsure about the visualization type you want to use, or how you want to display the data, drag the fields you want to visualize onto the workspace, then let **Lens** choose for you. From 3ad240e33ef17069b60f99bcc45e0478aff5b196 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florent Le Borgne Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:54:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] styling --- explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md b/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md index a186932b1d..e020dc6818 100644 --- a/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md +++ b/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ products: # Lens [lens] -**Lens** is Kibana's drag-and-drop visualization builder that lets you create charts without writing queries. You drag fields onto the canvas, and Kibana suggests the best visualization types for your data. +**Lens** is Kibana's drag-and-drop visualization builder. It lets you create charts without writing queries: You drag fields onto the canvas, and Kibana suggests the best visualization types for your data. These fields come from your data indices stored in Elasticsearch. When you bring data into Elasticsearch, like logs, metrics, or business data, each piece of information becomes a "field" - things like timestamps, user names, error codes, or sales amounts. From b4cbb7465e87581c95b8c18f400bf651c38874e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florent Le Borgne Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:58:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] styling again --- explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md b/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md index e020dc6818..62aa82aaf7 100644 --- a/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md +++ b/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ products: **Lens** is Kibana's drag-and-drop visualization builder. It lets you create charts without writing queries: You drag fields onto the canvas, and Kibana suggests the best visualization types for your data. -These fields come from your data indices stored in Elasticsearch. When you bring data into Elasticsearch, like logs, metrics, or business data, each piece of information becomes a "field" - things like timestamps, user names, error codes, or sales amounts. +These fields come from your data indices stored in Elasticsearch. When you bring data into Elasticsearch, like logs, metrics, or business data, each piece of information becomes a field: timestamps, user names, error codes, sales amounts, and so on. Lens doesn't directly look into your {{es}} indices. You first need to specify a [data view](/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/data-views.md) that tells Kibana which indices to look at. When you open Lens and select a data view, you see all the fields from that data as a list you can drag and drop to build visualizations. From 468144a11befe69d8c28300c11195f46e6e69181 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: florent-leborgne Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:14:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Nastasha Solomon <79124755+nastasha-solomon@users.noreply.github.com> --- explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md b/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md index 62aa82aaf7..4ef5f96810 100644 --- a/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md +++ b/explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ products: # Lens [lens] -**Lens** is Kibana's drag-and-drop visualization builder. It lets you create charts without writing queries: You drag fields onto the canvas, and Kibana suggests the best visualization types for your data. +**Lens** is {{kib}}'s drag-and-drop visualization builder. It lets you create charts without writing queries: You drag fields onto the canvas, and {{kib}} suggests the best visualization types for your data. -These fields come from your data indices stored in Elasticsearch. When you bring data into Elasticsearch, like logs, metrics, or business data, each piece of information becomes a field: timestamps, user names, error codes, sales amounts, and so on. +These fields come from your data indices stored in {{es}}. When you bring data into {{es}}, like logs, metrics, or business data, each piece of information becomes a field: timestamps, user names, error codes, sales amounts, and so on. -Lens doesn't directly look into your {{es}} indices. You first need to specify a [data view](/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/data-views.md) that tells Kibana which indices to look at. When you open Lens and select a data view, you see all the fields from that data as a list you can drag and drop to build visualizations. +Lens doesn't directly look into your {{es}} indices. You first need to specify a [data view](/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/data-views.md) that tells {{kib}} which indices to look at. When you open Lens and select a data view, you see all the fields from that data as a list you can drag and drop to build visualizations. :::{tip} If you collected data using one of the {{kib}} [ingest options](/manage-data/ingest.md), uploaded a file, or added sample data, you likely have a {{data-source}} created automatically, and can start exploring your data. If not, you must create one yourself.