If you are reading some technical blogs, maybe about search or data analysis, chances are big you have read about Kibana. You have seen stories about how easy it is    to use. Most of the blogging effort deals with getting data into kibana using logstash for instance. Maybe some of you have installed Kibana and are using it in combination with logstash. But what if you want to analyze other data. With the most recent release M4, Kibana is better than ever in analyzing other sort of data. In this blog I am going to show you how to create your own dashboard in Kibana. In order to do something useful with Kibana we have to have data. Peter Meijer had a very nice idea to index metadata from all of your images to learn about the type of photo’s that you take. I decided to put this in practice. I used Node.js and the exiftool to obtain metadata from images and store it in elasticsearch.

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