Kibana Dashboard Migration and Localization for IT Services

The challenge

The client, a global IT infrastructure services provider spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas, ran its system monitoring and incident analysis on Kibana dashboards — but its internal teams needed that analytics platform in more than 10 languages. Kibana’s built-in internationalization covers the interface itself, not the custom panel labels and text blocks the client had built.

An in-flight Elastic upgrade from 7.17 to 8.5 added a second constraint: the localization solution had to work across both versions, and data privacy rules meant the translation work couldn’t leave the client’s own infrastructure.

What we delivered

SquareShift built a secure, in-house translation service that combined Azure Translator with the Kibana API, automating the fetch, translation, and re-upload of dashboard content end to end.

The team rolled the solution out in two phases to cover both Elastic 7.17 and 8.5, translated more than 50 dashboards — including custom visualizations and every field type — and validated the full pipeline inside the client’s own environment.

The payoff

More than 50 Kibana dashboards now run in over 10 languages, giving the client’s global teams the same monitoring and incident-analysis views in their own language. The translation pipeline runs entirely within the client’s infrastructure, so no dashboard content or data privacy commitment was compromised to get there.