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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 8. Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management

Kibana management is there for tweaking the behavior of Kibana and to change the configuration at runtime. Using management, we can create the index pattern and configure it as well. By default, Kibana Management comes with a few options that can be extended after installing X-Pack, which adds many other capabilities to Kibana management.

So, there are different things that we can perform using Kibana management, such as index patterns to access the Elasticsearch index in Kibana, saved object to access already created dashboards, visualizations, or searches. It also gives us the feature to import or export these saved objects. We can also delete any saved object from the Kibana management screen.

If we have installed X-Pack, an additional feature of reporting would be added to Kibana management. Using this feature, we can download any generated report directly from the list it shows. Under Kibana, we have the last option as advanced...