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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

Chapter 5. Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators

In this chapter, we'll learn about dashboarding and how this will help in data analytics. Data analytics is used to perform analysis on data and get information out of raw data. In any organization, we have decision makers who rely on data for making decisions on certain points and for them, these dashboards are boons since they provide them with data with filter, search, and drill-down capabilities, and through that they can easily identify any outliers and drill down to get to the root cause of any anomaly in data.

In Kibana, we have the option to integrate different visualizations in a single place to create a dashboard, which we learned about in the previous chapter. I will be taking the same visualizations that we created in the previous chapter and explain how we can create an integrated dashboard and make it look presentable by placing the visualizations in the right order and by resizing them accordingly. Before creating...