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Adds release notes for Kibana 4.2, minor cleanup elsewhere.
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:ref: http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/
:shield: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current
:k4pull: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/
:k4issue: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/
include::introduction.asciidoc[]
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include::production.asciidoc[]
include::whats-new.asciidoc[]
include::releasenotes.asciidoc[]

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Setting up Kibana is a snap. You can install Kibana and start exploring your
Elasticsearch indices in minutes -- no code, no additional infrastructure required.
NOTE: This guide describes how to use Kibana 4.1. For information about what's new
in Kibana 4.1, see <<whats-new>>. For earlier versions of Kibana 4, see the
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/4.0/index.html[Kibana 4 User Guide]. For information about Kibana 3, see the
NOTE: This guide describes how to use Kibana 4.2. For information about what's new
in Kibana 4.2, see the <<releasenotes, release notes>>. For earlier versions of Kibana 4, see the
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/4.1/index.html[Kibana 4.1 User Guide]. For information about Kibana 3, see the
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/index.html[Kibana 3 User Guide].
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[[releasenotes]]
== Kibana 4.2 Release Notes
* Starting with the 2.0 release of Elasticsearch, you can https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/9670[no longer]
reference fields by leafnode. For example, the `geoip.country_code` field can no longer support searches such as
`country_code:US`. Instead, use the entire field name. This change affects saved searches, visualizations, and dashboards
from previous versions of Kibana.
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[[enhancementss]]
== Enhancements
* {k4issue}2855[Issue 2855]: Configurable Kibana log levels.
* {k4issue}4204[Issue 4204]: Plugin manager for Kibana server.
* {k4issue}4218[Issue 4218]: New interface for switching between plugins.
* {k4issue}3270[Issue 3270]: Server status page.
* {k4issue}2245[Issue 2245]: Customizable visualization descriptions.
* {k4issue}2906[Issue 2906]: Dark theme added to dashboards.
* {k4issue}1902[Issue 1902]: Tile maps support configurable WMS-compliant map servers.
* {k4issue}2245[Issue 2245]: Customize legends for the Filter aggregation.
* {k4issue}4817[Issue 4817]: Advanced Settings option maps values to colors.
* {k4issue}2874[Issue 2874]: Advanced Settings option to change default timepicker value.
* {k4issue}2760[Issue 2760]: Adds ability to filter by clicking on a legend.
* {k4issue}485[Issue 485]: Adds color rationalization across visualizations.
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[[bugfixes]]
== Bug Fixes
* {k4issue}4902[Issue 4902]: Fixes a problem with object export logic.
* {k4issue}3694[Issue 3694]: Improves timezone handling in visualizations as a result of Olson timezone support in ES.
* {k4issue}4261[Issue 4261]: Improves highlighting on embedded searches in dashboards.
* {k4issue}4816[Issue 4816]: Improves history limit setting to clear past history.
* {k4issue}4670[Issue 4670]: Fixes issue with range aggregation.
* {k4issue}4244[Issue 4244]: Fixes issue with pie chart labels.

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Tile maps use the *Geohash* aggregation as their initial aggregation. Select a field, typically coordinates, from the
drop-down. The *Precision* slider determines the granularity of the results displayed on the map. See the documentation
for the {ref}/search-aggregations-bucket-geohashgrid-aggregation.html#_cell_dimensions_at_the_equator[geohash grid]
aggregation for details on the area specified by each precision level. As of the 4.1 release, Kibana supports a maximum
geohash length of 7.
aggregation for details on the area specified by each precision level. Kibana supports a maximum geohash length of 7.
NOTE: Higher precisions increase memory usage for the browser displaying Kibana as well as for the underlying
Elasticsearch cluster.

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[[whats-new]]
== What's New in Kibana 4.1
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=== Key Features
* {k4pull}2518[Pull Request 2518]: You can pin filters to make the filter persist across Kibana functionality, from
the Visualize tab to Discover to a Dashboard.
* {k4pull}2731[Pull Request 2731]: Field formatting options now supported in Settings.
* {k4pull}3154[Pull Request 3154]: New chart: Bubble chart, derived from the basic line chart.
* {k4pull}3212[Pull Request 3212]: You can now install Kibana on Linux with a package manager such as `apt-get`.
* {k4pull}3271[Pull Request 3271] and {k4pull}3262[3262]: New aggregations: IPv4 and Date range aggregations enable
you to specify buckets for these qualities.
* {k4pull}3290[Pull Request 3290]: You can select a time interval for the Discover display of time series data.
* {k4pull}3470[Pull Request 3470]: New metric: Percentile ranks.
* {k4pull}3573[Pull Request 3573]: Kibana objects (visualizations, dashboards, and searches) can be imported and
exported.
* {k4pull}3830[Pull Request 3830]: New chart: Heatmap, a tile map display variant.
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[[improvements]]
=== Improvements
* {k4pull}3164[Pull Request 3164]: You can now store a specific time range with a dashboard.
* {k4pull}3233[Pull Request 3233]: New Y axis scale options, log scale and square root scale.
* {k4pull}3237[Pull Request 3237]: Dat Histogram bucket aggregation now supports custom intervals, from seconds to
years.
* {k4pull}3273[Pull Request 3273]: Line smoothing for for line and area charts.
* {k4pull}3464[Pull Request 3464]: You can now specify the extent of the Y axis for charts.
* {k4pull}3526[Pull Request 3526]: You can add columns to Discover's list of results directly from an entry's table of
fields.
* {k4pull}3671[Pull Request 3671]: Tile maps now support latitude/longitude filtering.
* {k4pull}3800[Pull Request 3800]: You can now pause auto-refresh on a dashboard.