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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.

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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Contributors
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Revising the ELK Stack
Revising the ELK Stack
What is ELK Stack?
Installing the ELK Stack
ELK use cases
Summary
2
Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard
Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard
Setting up the stage
Creating the dashboard
Summary
3
Exploring Your Data
Exploring Your Data
Kibana Discover
Discovering data using Kibana Discover
Exploring Kibana Discover to access packet data
Summary
4
Visualizing the Data
Visualizing the Data
Creating visualizations
Pie charts
Bar charts
Area charts
Data metrics
Data tables
Tag clouds
Markdown
Sharing visualizations
Summary
5
Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators
Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators
Creating the dashboard
Arranging visualizations
Exploring the dashboard
Summary
6
Handling Time Series Data with Timelion
Handling Time Series Data with Timelion
Timelion interface
Timeline expression
.es function parameters
Chainable methods
Data source functions
Saving Timelion graph
Timelion sheet option
Deleting Timelion sheet
Timelion help
Timelion auto-refresh
Summary
7
Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools
Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools
Console
Profiling queries
Grok debugger
Summary
8
Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management
Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management
Index pattern
Saved objects
Advanced settings
Reporting
Security
Watcher
Summary
9
Understanding X-Pack Features
Understanding X-Pack Features
Installing X-Pack
Features of X-Pack
Summary 
10
Machine Learning with Kibana
Machine Learning with Kibana
Machine learning jobs
Create a machine learning job
Summary 
11
Create Super Cool Dashboard from a Web Application
Create Super Cool Dashboard from a Web Application
JDBC input plugin
Configuring Logstash for database input
Creating a dashboard using MySQL data
Summary
12
Different Use Cases of Kibana
Different Use Cases of Kibana
Time-series data handling
A visual builder for handling time series data
GeoIP for Elastic Stack
Summary
13
Creating Monitoring Dashboards Using Beats
Creating Monitoring Dashboards Using Beats
Configuring the Beats
Creating visualizations using Beat data
Creating the dashboard
Importing Beat dashboards
Summary
14
Best Practices
Best Practices
Requirement of test environment
Picking the right time filter field
Avoiding large document indexing
Avoiding sparsity
Avoiding wildcard searches
Summary
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Index
Index

Creating the dashboard

Now, as we have created the visualizations using different Beats, let's integrate them to create the dashboard. You can create the visualizations as per the requirements and can add them to the existing dashboard.

For creating the dashboard, we need to do the following:

  1. Click on the Dashboard link in the left menu to open the dashboard page.
  2. Click on the plus button to add a new dashboard. This will open the blank dashboard with a message saying This dashboard is empty. Lets fill it up.
  3. Click on the Add button on the page or the Add link in the top menu.
  4. This will open the Add Panels page with visualizations and the saved Search tab.
    1. From the Visualization tab, search the visualization and click on the visualization you want to add.
  5. So, I am adding filebeat_apache_error_level, metricbeat_cpu_usage, and packetbeat_mysql_responsetime visualizations.
  6. After adding the visualizations, click on the Save button in the top menu, and after giving a name to the dashboard, click on...
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