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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

Markdown


Markdown is the simplest visualization in Kibana, and comes under the other category. Markdown provides us with the option to create visualizations by providing any text message. We can create the text message and put it into the dashboard.

Creating a markdown visualization

To create the markdown visualization, we need to click on the Markdown box on the Select visualization type page. After that, we need to do the following:

  1. Add the text content in the given text-area under the font size controller.
  2. Increase or decrease the font using the Font Size controller.
  3. Click on the Apply changes button to show the markdown:

This will create the text markdown chart, which we can add to a dashboard as per our requirements. We can save this visualization in the same way as we did with the earlier charts.