Kibana Floating Toolbar
Free up Kibana screen real estate with a floating top navigation toolbar.
Tested on Kibana 7.17 and 8.x.
This plugins adds a top nav button that allows to dock \ undock the top navigation bar. The preferred configuration is stored on local storage between sessions and is shared between kibana instances that use this plugin.
Development
Prerequisites
Node
Running Kibana in development mode requires having node installed.
The most convenient way is to install nvm, then once you checkout the kibana repository, run nvm use to know which version of node to use.
Install the right version by running:
nvm install VERSION
yarn
Install yarn by running:
npm install --global yarn
Environment setup
Checkout the appropriate version of kibana
git clone https://github.com/elastic/kibana.git
cd kibana
git checkout KIBANA_VERSION
Setup the kibana for local development (This might take a while the first time)
yarn kbn bootstrap
Clone the plugin into the plugins directory. You may also fork the project to customize it and check out your own version of the plugin.
cd plugins
git clone https://github.com/lizozom/kibana-floating-toolbar.git
Go back to the kibana folder and start Elasticsearch in dev mode
yarn es snapshot
In parallel, start Kibana in dev mode (This might take a while the first time)
yarn start --no-base-path
Kibana should start with the plugin on. It will watch any changes in the plugin and rebuild it as needed.
Installing the plugin
Navigate into the plugin directory (within the kibana repository) and build it:
cd plugins/custom-kibana-theme
yarn build
This builds the plugin into a zip file under the build folder.
Place the build file on a web hosting or copy it to the deployment where you intend to install it, then install the plugin by running:
bin/kibana-plugin install PATH_TO_ZIP
More documentation on how to install a plugin from a zip file can be found here.