Kibana: [Canvas] [Meta] List of examples, videos, and other helpful content

[ryankeairns]

Canvas is new which means people coming to it are trying to quickly assess what it can do and how it works. Real examples and demonstrations provide new users a frame of reference that helps them answer many initial questions.

Let's track all the great content being generated so that we can do things like add it to docs, provide contextual examples/links, couple it with learning materials, and assist those who are generating new content.

• Alex's sample workpads - https://github.com/alexfrancoeur/kibana_canvas_examples
• Single pane of glass - Canvas webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idSqZnURUk8
• Webinar: https://www.elastic.co/webinars/intro-to-canvas-a-new-way-to-tell-visual-stories-in-kibana
• Repo for workpads and queries used in Single pane of glass webinar https://github.com/alexfrancoeur/kibana_canvas_examples/tree/master/presentations/apm_metrics_logs
• ElasticGov demo: https://vimeo.com/elasticsearch/review/331475521/138e5077d5
• Canvas docs - getting started guide (current version)
• (under construction) Creating your first workpad
• (under construction) Canvas intro video(s)
• Old Canvas blog stream https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-blog-stream/126823
• Blogs
  
  
  
  • https://www.elastic.co/blog/canvas-tech-preview
  
  
  • https://www.elastic.co/blog/getting-started-with-canvas-in-kibana
  
  
  • https://www.elastic.co/blog/preview-of-sql-in-canvas-with-rashid-creator-of-kibana
  
  
  • https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticon-kibana-canvas-story-elasticoffee
  
  
  • https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-canvas-data-table-and-debug-elements
  
  
  • https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-canvas-metric-and-markdown-elements
  
  
  • https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticon-kibana-canvas-story-ama
  
  
  • https://www.elastic.co/blog/hiking-the-pacific-crest-trail-with-the-elastic-stack-part-3-mission-complete
  
  
• User story: https://www.elastic.co/blog/monitoring-airport-security-operations-with-canvas-and-elasticsearch
• User story: https://www.elastic.co/blog/eye-catching-canvas-dashboards-on-top-of-bike-sharing-data

cc: @shaunmcgough @alexfrancoeur @schersh

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-canvas

[alexfrancoeur]

Added a few more above, as we improve the documentation, hopefully we can provide enough useful examples there that we don't need to keep track of reference material. Though Canvas is a different beast, it's always helpful to see the art of the possible. I wonder if there is a better way to keep track of this content that is more "in your face". We could move a lot of my examples to the Elastic example repo as well or add them to demo.elastic.co. Thoughts @shaunmcgough ?

[alexfrancoeur]

@rashidkpc anything you might want to add here?

[shaunmcgough]

Perhaps, demo.elastic.co is another place for some of this. I also linked out to the current getting started page above. I think we should try to fill out this page as much as possible as well, which @schersh and @ryankeairns talked about recently.

All of this documentation work is going to make a big impact on users finding important information quickly and in a variety of ways.

@alexfrancoeur whom would be the contact or team for demo.elastic.co?

[alexfrancoeur]

@gingerwizard can probably help for demo.elastic.co

[gingerwizard]

@EthanStrider please own this. Adding canvas decks to the env is simple. However, we’d need the accompanying dataset to be provided as line delimited Json. If this is the case, this shouldn’t take more than 20 mins to deploy.

[EthanStrider]

@alexfrancoeur Can you provide a concise list of canvas demos that you would like added to https://demo.elastic.co/app/canvas#/

The original list in this issue includes a lot of blogs, videos, and webinars and it's a little unclear which demos you think would be good for demo.elastic.co

Thanks!

[mkkeffeler]

Of the list provided at the top, this would be the concise list if I was taking a stab at it:

Alex's sample workpads - https://github.com/alexfrancoeur/kibana_canvas_examples
Webinar: https://www.elastic.co/webinars/intro-to-canvas-a-new-way-to-tell-visual-stories-in-kibana
Repo for workpads and queries used in Single pane of glass webinar https://github.com/alexfrancoeur/kibana_canvas_examples/tree/master/presentations/apm_metrics_logs
Canvas docs - getting started guide (current version)
(under construction) Creating your first workpad
(under construction) Canvas intro video(s)
Old Canvas blog stream https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-blog-stream/126823
User story: https://www.elastic.co/blog/monitoring-airport-security-operations-with-canvas-and-elasticsearch
User story: https://www.elastic.co/blog/eye-catching-canvas-dashboards-on-top-of-bike-sharing-data

[gingerwizard]

@EthanStrider please add these to the canvas demo as well as demo.elastic.co. Estimate the work as we will need to ensure the accompanying datasets are available and appropriate for public distribution.