Kibana — Useful keyboard shortcuts for “Dev tools”

Vakhtang Matskeplishvili
2 min readFeb 12, 2023

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Most Elasticsearch customers use Kibana dev tools as the interface for the direct REST requests to Elastiscearch, but not all of them know that Kibana Dev tools come with keyboard shortcuts, making working with them much more efficient.
In the past versions of the Kibana developer manuals, there was a list of keyboard shortcuts The last manual that I found with this guide, points to version 7.2:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.2/keyboard-shortcuts.html
For the newer version, we could find only the “Please click help in the dev tools” message
If we enter the dev tools –> help, we will see the shortcuts help like this:

Unfortunately, according to version 8.6, some of the shortcuts don’t work, and part of them do not appear in the list (Right for Windows).

Here is a shortcut that is still active now:
Ctrl/Cmd + I — Auto format current request.
Ctrl + Space — Open Autocomplete (even if not typing).
Ctrl/Cmd + Enter — Submit a request.
Ctrl/Cmd + Up/Down — Jump to the previous/next request start or end.
Ctrl + D — Delete line

When autocomplete is visible
Down arrow — Switch focus to auto-complete menu. Use arrows to further select a term.
Enter/Tab — Select the currently selected or the topmost term in the autocomplete menu.
Esc — Close the auto-complete menu.

The following shortcuts do not work:
Ctrl/Cmd + Alt + L — Collapse/expand the current scope.
Ctrl/Cmd + Option + 0 — Collapse all scopes but the current one. Expand by adding a shift.
I can’t test the shortcuts in the Mac and Linux, so feel free to write me how it works in these operating systems

That’s All Folks:)
Have a good Kibana usage!

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Vakhtang Matskeplishvili
Vakhtang Matskeplishvili

Written by Vakhtang Matskeplishvili

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