Integrations / Analytics
Connect Kibana to WhatsApp with an AI agent
Flann connects Kibana to the WhatsApp chat you already run your business from. You ask, and Flann picks the right Kibana action. Analytics tools answer questions well, provided you know where to click. Flann does the clicking. You ask in plain words on WhatsApp, it queries Kibana and replies with the figure and a sentence on what it means.
47 actions in Kibana. 34 only look things up, and 13 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Kibana
Type it or say it in a voice note. Flann works out which Kibana action you mean.
“Show me my fleet EPM categories in Kibana.”
“Find alerts in Kibana.”
“Show me my cases in Kibana.”
“Create a case in Kibana.”
“Create a connector in Kibana.”
“Create a dashboard in Kibana.”
What Flann can work with in Kibana
Kibana gives Flann 47 actions across 18 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Alerting rules | deletelook upcreate | 3 |
| Connectors | deletelook upcreate | 3 |
| Fleet EPM packages | look up | 3 |
| Cases | look upcreate | 2 |
| Data views | look upcreate | 2 |
| Fleet server hosts | look up | 2 |
Side by side, the two ways of working in Kibana:
| Compare | In Kibana yourselfYou click through each job | Flann on KibanaYou ask, Flann does the clicking |
|---|---|---|
| Asking for something | Open the app and find the right page | A WhatsApp message, typed or spoken |
| Finding answers | Filters and searches you run yourself | 34 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Making changes | Typed in by hand | 13 changes, made from a message |
| Kibana records | All of them, one screen at a time | 18 kinds, from one chat |
| Getting connected | Nothing new to set up | Your Kibana API key, once |
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Step by step: Kibana jobs you can hand to Flann
What happens between your message and the result in Kibana.
Create a connector from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create a connector in Kibana with these details.”
- Flann runs
Get All Connectorsin Kibana and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Create Kibana Connectorin Kibana. - Flann creates it in Kibana and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your cases
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our cases in Kibana?”
- Flann runs
Get Casesin Kibana and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Kibana is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Clean up alerting rules you no longer need
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Which alerting rules in Kibana are out of date? Remove the ones I confirm.”
- Flann runs
Get Alerting Rulesin Kibana and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Delete Alerting Rulein Kibana. - Each removal is confirmed in the chat.
The Kibana jobs you can stop doing yourself
You stay in charge of what goes out. Flann does the reading, the drafting and the chasing.
Finding what earns and what does not
Today
Instinct tells you which products or services carry the business, but checking means exporting from Kibana and sorting a spreadsheet.
With Flann
“Rank our services by revenue for the quarter from Kibana. What’s slipping?”
Every product or service in Kibana is ranked by revenue and by volume, and Flann points out the ones slipping compared with last quarter. You get the top and the bottom of the list, not the whole thing.
What you stop doing: Exporting and sorting spreadsheets to test a hunch is over.
Cleaning up duplicate records
Today
The same customer appears in Kibana three times with slightly different spellings. Reports count them separately, and nobody gets round to merging them.
With Flann
“Find duplicate customers in Kibana and show me what you’d merge.”
Records in Kibana that share a phone number, an email or a close spelling are grouped as likely duplicates.
What you stop doing: Merging duplicate records one by one is no longer on you.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Kibana
- Search for Kibana in Flann’s Connectors.
- Paste your Kibana API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Kibana account settings.
- From then on, message Flann on WhatsApp. It works in Kibana whenever a request needs it.
Reading from Kibana is instant. Kibana stays connected until you remove it in Connectors.
Ways to use Kibana with Flann
Check before you decide
Before a big call, ask Flann for the figure that matters. It looks it up in Kibana first.
A weekly summary on demand
Ask Flann for the week in brief. It reads Kibana and sends the few numbers worth knowing.
Spot what changed
Ask what went up or down. Flann checks Kibana and tells you what moved.
Everything Flann can do in Kibana
All 47 Kibana actions, as Flann sees them.
Looks up 34
- Check Fleet Permissions
- Find Detection Engine Rules
- Find Kibana Alerts
- Get Action Types
- Get Alerting Rules
- Get All Connectors
- Get Cases
- Get Data Views
- Get Endpoint List Items
- Get Entity Store Engines
- Get Entity Store Status
- Get EPM Package Statistics
- Get Fleet Agent Policies
- Get Fleet Agents Available Versions
- Get Fleet Agents Setup Status
- Get Fleet Enrollment API Key
- Get Fleet Enrollment API Keys
- Get Fleet EPM Categories
- Get Fleet EPM Data Streams
- Get Fleet EPM Package Details
- Get Fleet EPM Package File
- Get Fleet EPM Packages
- Get Fleet EPM Packages (Limited)
- Get Fleet Package Policies
- Get Fleet Server Host
- Get Fleet Server Hosts
- Get Index Management Indices
- Get Installed EPM Packages
- Get Kibana Status
- Get Node Metrics
and 4 more
Changes 13
- Create Alerting Rule
- Create Case
- Create Dashboard
- Create Data View
- Create Kibana Connector
- Create or Update Saved Object
- Delete Alerting Rule
- Delete Connector
- Delete Fleet Output
- Delete Fleet Proxy
- Delete List
- Delete Osquery Saved Query
- Delete Saved Object
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Common questions
What can Flann do with alerting rules in Kibana?
Flann can delete, look up and create alerting rules in Kibana, using 3 actions (Delete Alerting Rule, Get Alerting Rules, Create Alerting Rule). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change alerting rules in Kibana.
What can Flann do with connectors in Kibana?
Flann can delete, look up and create connectors in Kibana, using 3 actions (Delete Connector, Get All Connectors, Create Kibana Connector). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change connectors in Kibana.
How does Flann connect to Kibana?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Kibana and paste your Kibana API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Kibana account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 47 actions in Kibana.
How do I ask Flann to do something in Kibana?
Message Flann on WhatsApp the way you would message a colleague, or send a voice note. Flann picks the Kibana action that fits and asks if anything is missing.
Is Kibana included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Kibana included.