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Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide

By : Anurag Srivastava
Book Image

Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide

By: Anurag Srivastava

Overview of this book

The Elastic Stack is growing rapidly and, day by day, additional tools are being added to make it more effective. This book endeavors to explain all the important aspects of Kibana, which is essential for utilizing its full potential. This book covers the core concepts of Kibana, with chapters set out in a coherent manner so that readers can advance their learning in a step-by-step manner. The focus is on a practical approach, thereby enabling the reader to apply those examples in real time for a better understanding of the concepts and to provide them with the correct skills in relation to the tool. With its succinct explanations, it is quite easy for a reader to use this book as a reference guide for learning basic to advanced implementations of Kibana. The practical examples, such as the creation of Kibana dashboards from CSV data, application RDBMS data, system metrics data, log file data, APM agents, and search results, can provide readers with a number of different drop-off points from where they can fetch any type of data into Kibana for the purpose of analysis or dashboarding.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Dev Tools

Dev Tools provides us with the console option, from which we can execute Elasticsearch queries. We have two panes under the Dev Tools console, one for executing the queries and other to show the results of executed queries. The Dev Tools console provides us the type hint, which makes it quite easy to create an Elasticsearch query. We need to click on the Dev Tools link from the left menu option to open the Dev Tools page. See the following screenshot:

In the screenshot, under the console in the left pane, we can write Elasticsearch queries. After executing the query, the result is shown in the right pane.

Apart from the console, we have two other options under Dev Tools, Search Profiler and Grok Debugger. Using Search Profiler, we can profile any search query of Elasticsearch as it provides details of each query with a query duration for each component, along with the...