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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

Summary 


In this chapter, we covered the features of X-Pack. It provides a lot of important features to the Elastic Stack, such as security then monitoring, through which we can keep an eye on the way our cluster is performing and its individual components such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash.

Through security settings, apart from reserved users, we can create new users, edit them, and delete them. In the case of roles, we have different reserved roles, and we can create new custom roles, edit roles, delete them, and assign them to the users.

Apart from security and monitoring, we have machine learning, through which we can do a number of things effectively, such as finding anomalies in data and doing predictive analysis. Adding machine learning to Elastic Stack provides an edge, as we can do a lot more with the data. We will discuss more about machine learning in the next chapter.

In the next chapter, we will cover machine learning for Kibana, along with a single metric job, multi metric...