Kibana Dashboards

This one's for teams managing Kibana dashboards and visualizations as code. It gives you a declarative API format that's designed to be Git-friendly and diffable, which means you can version control your dashboards properly instead of clicking through the UI every time. The payloads are minimal and the whole thing is built with GitOps workflows in mind. Works with ES|QL queries, handles inline panel definitions (which are more reliable than saved object references), and there's a CLI script for all the standard operations. Requires Kibana 9.4 or later. If you're already doing infrastructure as code and want your observability dashboards in the same repo, this is the tool.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add elastic/agent-skills --skill kibana-dashboards --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Kibana Dashboards and Lens Visualizations

Create, update, and delete Kibana dashboards and standalone Lens visualizations using the Kibana 9.4+ Dashboards and Visualizations APIs. Produce minimal, diffable JSON bodies; prefer inline panel definitions over library references; choose the correct dataset type (data view vs ES|QL) before writing metrics or chart layers; and follow the design guidance in Dashboard Design Guidelines and Chart Design Guidelines so the result reads like a well-made Kibana dashboard, not a schema dump.

Environment Configuration

This skill executes Elasticsearch operations through the elastic CLI. If the elastic CLI is not installed, tell the user what it is needed for. Do not guess credentials, call the HTTP API directly, or attempt other workarounds.

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Details

Repository: github.com/elastic/agent-skills
Categories: AI & Agent Building, Release Management, Automation & Workflows
First seen: May 16, 2026