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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

Arranging visualizations


For arranging the dashboard properly, first we need to edit the dashboard by clicking on the Edit link on the top menu. There are different things that we can perform to arrange the dashboard.

Moving visualizations

We want to show the key performance indicators on the top of the page to make the dashboard effective and more meaningful. For this, we need to move the visualizations and rearrange them as per the order of their importance. So, to rearrange the visualizations, we need to do the following:

  1. Click on theEditlink on the top menu and hover over the visualization title bar.
  2. Click and hold the mouse to drag and drop it.
  3. Drag the visualization and drop it into a new, desired location.
  4. Release the mouse button.
  5. Click on the Save link on the top menu and save the dashboard:

Resizing visualizations

Sometimes, one type of visualization takes more space and others take less space, and it looks weird if we show them in the same size box. For example, if we want to show the...