Kibana is part of ELK stack to visualize data from elasticsearch. Further than that, Kibana is equipped with many features and plug-ins such as elastic nodes & infrastructure monitoring, user roles or life cycle management and query experiment elasticsearch database.
Spend sometime with the demo Kibana page to feel it. Click Here.
Grafana is an open-source web application specialized in time-series visualization. Hence, it is suitable for the the purpose of monitoring. One of interesting facts is that Grafana is a fork from Kibana 3 to enhance the ability of dashboard editing and make it as a clean and elegant time-series visualization tool. To get the sense of Grafana dashboard, surf this link: https://play.grafana.org.
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