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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

Creating visualizations


For creating a visualization, we need to click on the Visualize link on the left-hand menu, which will open a page. We will display a list of visualizations, if we have already created any; otherwise, there will be a page with a Create a visualization button in the middle. So, for creating a new visualization, we need to click on this button:

Now, we need to choose the visualization type from the Select visualization type screen. There are multiple types of visualizations, such as the ones shown in the following screenshot:

Now, we need to select the visualization type first by clicking on the visualization type box. But before selecting the right visualization type, we need to understand the data. By seeing the data, we can get the best way to depict it through visualization. For example, if we have a single dimensional data over time, we can use a histogram, but if we have related data, such as the number of votes acquired by each party in an election, we can use...