A tag cloud is basically words that are uniquely picked from the selected field of the document. A field value with more occurrences is shown in a prominent way to make it more visible than the field value with less occurrences. For example, if I pick the Metricbeat field, metricset.name,
the tag cloud type graph will pick unique values of the field such as network, process, filesystem, and more, and, based on their occurrence in the document, the text will be displayed in the chart.
To create the tag cloud visualization, we need to click on the Tag cloud
box on the Select visualization type
page. After that, we need to click on the index named metricbeat-*
on the Choose search source
page, which will open the default blank page:
On the left-hand side of the page, we can see only one link under buckets, which is Tags
. We need to do the following for creating the tag cloud:
- Click on the
Tags
link under theBuckets
option. - Select
Terms
under theAggregation
option...