Kibana is a highly scalable user interface for `elasticsearch` that allows you to efficiently search, graph, analyze and otherwise make sense of a mountain(s) of data. It is often used to visualize data that is stored in `elasticsearch` which agains is usually parsed and fed in by `logstash`. It essentially uses the `elasticsearch's` REST APIs to query it and has in built graphing and search functionalities that are highly intuitive and simple to use.
Kibana is an application for exploring and visualizing your data. It helps you find meaning in that data with tools for searching, creating visualizations, and combining those visualizations to build dashboards. It is commonly used within the system administration, logging, and business analytics communities but is compatible with just about any data.
Kibana is an open-source project and uses the 
elasticsearch engine, another open-source project, for its powerful search and aggregation capabilities.
As a part of the elk-stack, Kibana and elasticsearch can be paired with logstash to build a powerful logging analysis solution.
Overview: Kibana
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