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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

Summary


At the beginning of this chapter, we discussed different types of visualizations, such as pie charts, bar charts, area charts, data metrics, data tables, tag clouds, and markdown. Then, we covered them in detail, alongside the type of aggregations they support for metrics and buckets, and then we covered how to create these charts one by one by setting the aggregation and selecting the data field.

By creating different types of visualization, we can integrate them into a dashboard and then we can do many things, such as search, filter, and drill-down, using simple clicks on the charts. This helps us to explore our data by visualizing it in an integrated way, since filters on dashboards work on all visualizations of an Elasticsearch index.It also provides us with the option to download the reports from the visualization directly by clicking on the down arrow and then on the export link. So, here, we have covered the topics related to Kibana visualization.

In the next chapter, we will...