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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

Discovering data using Kibana Discover


Data creation is running at a fast pace and the volume of data is increasing multifold. The story is the same in every sector as the evolution of science is providing more and more ways to gather data. Some examples of this are IOT devices, activity trackers, mobile devices, and websites; they are constantly pushing data to the servers. We need a lot of data to keep track of different aspects, such as system monitoring, fraud detection, debugging applications, and alert systems, but as the volume of data increases, it is quite difficult to search for anything.

Kibana Discover is a very useful tool for data filtering and searching. Using this, we can apply filters, write custom Elasticsearch filter queries, and search data using fields or across all fields. To explain this, I'll configure Packetbeat to push data packets into the Elasticsearch index. Later on, using that index, I will explain how we can explore this data. We can divide this into the following...