Question: Can I monitor Packet Loss via SolarWinds?

You can use a custom chart for Multiple Objects then preview it to edit the chart elements.

Select Percent Loss and then go into Select Object to pick the Nodes at the far end of the Link you want to watch packet loss on.

You end up with a graph that looks like this:

I just changed it to Response Time so you can see the results a bit better.

Our polling cycle is every five minutes, on links you deem critical you could up the polling of the far devices to every minute and capture more fidelity.

As to question 2, how do you want to use the link? Do you want to simply click on an HREF element and have it open up Kibana? Or do you want to display a particular chart from Kibana inside a SolarWinds View?

1. If you want to Just provide a link on a SW Menu then you go to the Setting | All Settings | External Websites and add the information. The URL would look like this to take you there: http://<yourorion.site.com>/Orion/Admin/ExternalWebsites.aspx
2. The other way is to add a Custom HTML Object in the view in which you want the element to appear. For example you could add the Thwack Logo to a web part like this:

Which results in the view displaying this:

At that point it is just a matter of how complex you want to make the URI inside the HTML you build.