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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

Summary


In this chapter, we covered how we can create visualizations and dashboards using Beats data. At the beginning, I explained how we can configure Filebeat, Metricbeat, and Packetbeat for sending data into Elasticsearch or Logstash.

After getting the data into Elasticsearch, we can create the index pattern for each Beat. Once the index pattern has been created, we can verify the data using the Kibana Discover option. After getting the data in Kibana, I explained how to create the visualizations and dashboards by integrating the visualizations.

At the end of the chapter, I explained the process to import index pattern and dashboards directly into Kibana from Filebeat, Metricbeat, and Packetbeat. So basically, this chapter was all about Beats and the usage of Beats for dashboard creation and import.