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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

Timeline expression


When we open the Timeline window for the first time, it shows the expression .es(*), which means it shows all the indexes of Elasticsearch and combines them. If we want to fetch any specific Elasticsearch index, then we need to provide the name of the index inside the .es() method, as shown in the following command:

.es(index=metricbeat-*)

In this way, we are specifying the name of the index as metricbeat-*. It helps us to get the details from any specific index:

 

The Timelion expression starts with a dot. After that, we provide the function name and then the parentheses, in which we provide all the parameters that we can apply. By default, an asterisk is shown inside the parentheses to fetch all the available index data.