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Mastering Kibana 6.x

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Mastering Kibana 6.x

Overview of this book

Kibana is one of the popular tools among data enthusiasts for slicing and dicing large datasets and uncovering Business Intelligence (BI) with the help of its rich and powerful visualizations. To begin with, Mastering Kibana 6.x quickly introduces you to the features of Kibana 6.x, before teaching you how to create smart dashboards in no time. You will explore metric analytics and graph exploration, followed by understanding how to quickly customize Kibana dashboards. In addition to this, you will learn advanced analytics such as maps, hits, and list analytics. All this will help you enhance your skills in running and comparing multiple queries and filters, influencing your data visualization skills at scale. With Kibana’s Timelion feature, you can analyze time series data with histograms and stats analytics. By the end of this book, you will have created a speedy machine learning job using X-Pack capabilities.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating visualizations using Beat data


We have configured the Filebeat, Metricbeat, and Packetbeat to send the data from different servers to the Elasticsearch cluster and created the index pattern for them in Kibana. Now, we will create the visualization in Kibana in order to create the dashboard.

Visualization using Filebeat

We have already configured the index pattern for Filebeat data, so now, first of all, we need to verify the data in Kibana and for that, we can click on the Discover tab of Kibana. The following screen gives us the Discover view of the Filebeat data:

The preceding screenshot shows the data for Filebeat. So now, as we have the Filebeat data in Kibana, we can create the visualizations, and, for that, open the Visualize tab of Kibana. Click on the plus button to add a new visualization, and then click on the vertical bar to create a vertical bar using the Filebeat data. From the index selection screen, select the Filebeat index that opens the new visualization screen from...