JSON Content

A Kibana plugin to pretty print JSON strings in the Kibana Discover/Logs tab. This doesn't index the JSON content, it just pretty prints & highlights it in the console for easier reading.

Built for Kibana 8.15.0.

I built this plugin because neither did I want to index the JSON content nor did I want to copy the JSON content to a JSON linter to pretty print it. After hours of searching, I couldn't find any way to pretty print JSONs in the Discover/Logs that did this, so I built one myself. If I missed something obvious, feel free to reach out.

Installation

The plugin archive is pushed to the build folder & committed to the repository (Too lazy to set up a CI/CD pipeline for this).

1. Install in Kibana via:

   bin/kibana-plugin install https://github.com/adiwajshing/kibana-json-content/raw/refs/heads/master/build/jsonContent-8.15.0.zip

2. If you're running on Kubernetes, you can use this guide.

Usage

1. Open your Discover/Logs tab & select the field you'd like to print as JSON. This must be some string field. See this guide
2. Enable the "Set format", and select JSON:
3. Click save & close the field editor.
4. Now, you can see the JSON content pretty printed in the console!

Before: After:

Development

1. Setup the Kibana development environment, read here. Use branch 8.15.0 or some 8.x.x branch.
2. In the Kibana root directory, run cd plugins
3. Clone this repository there: git clone https://github.com/adiwajshing/json-content.git
4. Switch to this plugin's directory: cd json-content
5. Setup the plugin: yarn bootstrap
6. Start the dev build: yarn dev --watch (watch is optional)
7. To build for production, run: yarn build