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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

Chapter 3. Exploring Your Data

In the last chapter, we learned how to create a dashboard from Apache log files for which we have made a complete ELK Stack. Logstash was used to take an Apache log as input and then output the log data into an Elasticsearch server. We used Elasticsearch to save that log data in an index. Finally, we used Kibana to use the Elasticsearch index in order to create a dashboard after creating visualizations. This was just a brief introduction to understanding the complete ecosystem.

In this chapter, we will deep dive to understand how we can use the Discover option of Kibana to explore our data. We can only create our visualization after exploring and understanding our data.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Kibana Discover and its features
  • Discovering our data using Kibana Discover:
    • Configuring Packetbeat to push packet data into Elasticsearch
    • Exploring Kibana Discover to access packet data
    • Configuring Kibana to read the Elasticsearch index with...