Kibana is an open source data visualization and exploration platform from Elastic that enables you to search, visualize, and analyze data in real time from any source, including logs, metrics, and web applications. Kibana is a powerful tool for data analysis, allowing users to quickly and easily explore, manipulate, and visualize data. It provides intuitive dashboards and visualizations, which allow users to quickly gain insight into their data. Kibana also provides powerful search capabilities, allowing users to easily investigate and identify patterns in their data. Kibana can be used to monitor any type of data, including application logs, system logs, network traffic, system metrics, and more. Additionally, Kibana integrates with a variety of data sources, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Beats.
Grafana is a graphing package for graphing data. It is not a central log repository with search functions.