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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

Exploring Kibana Discover to access packet data


We have configured the Packetbeat data in Kibana, so now we can explore it using the Discover tab. After clicking on the Discover link on the left-hand side menu, we will see the following screen:

 

Here, we can see that the histogram is full since there have been regular entries of packet data into the Elasticsearch index. We can explore the histogram by clicking on any of the bars, which will open a detailed bar of that duration. We can drill down by clicking on the bar on the histogram. In the following screenshot, we can see a list of documents regarding the histogram with the packet data. We can expand any document, which opens a tabular view of the data:

Here, we can see each field with the data in tabular form. We can directly apply the filters by clicking on icons in front of the field names. We can convert this tabular view into a JSON view by clicking on the JSON tab:

Now, the same tabular data is displayed in the form of JSON data. We...