kibana-chord

(WIP) A Chord Diagram Kibana plugin. Designed to work with

• ElasticSearch version 2.2
• Kibana version 4.4

Installation

To install this plugin to your Kibana instance, you can use the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/datavis-tech/kibana-chord.git
cd kibana-chord
npm install
npm run build
cd ..
zip -r kibana-chord.zip kibana-chord -x "*.git*" "*node_modules*"
/opt/kibana/bin/kibana plugin --install kibana-chord -u file://`pwd`/kibana-chord.zip

To update to a newer version of this plugin:

cd kibana-chord
git pull
npm install
npm run build
cd ..
zip -r kibana-chord.zip kibana-chord -x "*.git*" "*node_modules*"
/opt/kibana/bin/kibana plugin --remove kibana-chord
/opt/kibana/bin/kibana plugin --install kibana-chord -u file://`pwd`/kibana-chord.zip

Usage

Note Currently, this is only a skeleton of a plugin that shows a configurable query.

Once installed, you should see an option to open this plugin that looks like this.

Once you open the plugin, you can change the query configuration to specify:

• Chord Weight
• Chord Source
• Chord Destination

Currently, the plugin only provides a basic (incomplete) Chord Diagram that looks like this:

Related Resources

• Official Documentation - Kibana Plugins Documentation for v4.4
• Tutorial - Writing Kibana 4 Plugins – Simple Visualizations Introduces timroes/tr-k4p-clock.
• Tutorial - Writing Kibana 4 Plugins – Visualizations using Data Introduces timroes/tr-k4p-tagcloud.
• d3-chord
• Mike Bostock’s Block - Chord Diagram Canonical example.
• Mike Bostock’s Block - Chord Diagram (Flare Imports)
• Nadieh Bremer’s Block - Avenger Movie Collaborations Shows nice hover interactions.
• Nadieh Bremer’s Block - Chord diagram 2014 - End result