Book Image

Mastering Kibana 6.x

Book Image

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

Saved objects


Under saved objects, we can get all objects that we have saved, such as the dashboards, visualizations, and all those searches that were saved. We can export everything like saved dashboards, visualizations, and searches by clicking on the Export everything button. We can also import these by clicking on the Import button if we have a exported JSON file. The following screenshot shows the Export everything and the Import button in the top-right corner:

The preceding screenshot shows the saved object page with a tabular view for dashboard, searches, and visualizations. The Dashboards tab is opened by default, which shows a list of saved dashboards.

Dashboards

It shows the count of the dashboard, along with the dashboards title on the tab. Thde following is the dashboard heading. We have a search box to search the dashboard and then a list of saved Dashboards:

If we hover on the name of a dashboard, it shows an eye icon. We can click on this eye icon to open the dashboard. We can...