Can we use Kibana for Apache Solr not using elasticsearch

Question

How to integrate Kibana with Apache solr instead of using elastic search.

If it cannot be done.

What are the alternatives to Kibana for Solr

Answer 1

You can use SiLK for sure but you are better off using the fully integrated dashboards module that comes with Lucidworks Fusion. Fusion will save you a ton of time and make it easier to focus on the search stuff that matters - like building a recommender engine, creating data-driven user experience, driving data enrichment with entity recognition and integrating with Big Data software like Hadoop.