When styling a vector layer, you can customize your data by property, such as size and color. For each property, you can specify whether to use a constant or data driven value for the style.

Static stylingedit

Use static styling to specify a constant value for a style property.

This image shows an example of static styling using the Kibana sample web logs data set. The kibana_sample_data_logs layer uses static styling for all properties.

Data driven stylingedit

Use data driven styling to symbolize features by property values. To enable data driven styling for a style property, change the selected value from Fixed or Solid to By value.

This image shows an example of data driven styling using the Kibana sample web logs data set. The kibana_sample_data_logs layer uses data driven styling for fill color and symbol size style properties.

Quantitative data driven stylingedit

Quantitative data driven styling symbolizes features from a range of numeric property values.

Property values are fit from the domain range to the style range on a linear scale. For example, let’s symbolize Kibana sample web log documents by size. The sample web logs bytes field ranges from 0 to 18,000. This is the domain range. The smallest feature has a symbol radius of 1, and the largest feature has a symbol radius of 24. This is the style range. The bytes property value for each feature will fit on a linear scale from the range of 0 to 18,000 to the style range of 1 to 24.

For color styles, values are fit from the domain range to the color ramp with one of the following:

When the property value is undefined for a feature:

When the symbol range minimum and maximum are the same and there is no range:

Qualitative data driven stylingedit

Qualitative data driven styling symbolizes properties, such as strings and IP addresses, by category.

Qualitative data driven styling is available for the following styling properties:

This image shows an example of quantitative data driven styling using the Kibana sample web logs data set. The machine.os.keyword property determines the color of each symbol based on category.

Class stylingedit

Class styling symbolizes features by class and requires multiple layers. Use layer filtering to define the class for each layer, and static styling to symbolize each class.

This image shows an example of class styling using the Kibana sample web logs data set.