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Kibana Essentials

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Kibana Essentials

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Kibana Essentials
Nov, 2015 | 206 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Kibana Essentials
Kibana Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
An Introduction to Kibana
An Introduction to Kibana
Understanding Elasticsearch
Prerequisites for installing Kibana 4.1.1
Importing a JSON file into Elasticsearch
Summary
2
Exploring the Discover Page
Exploring the Discover Page
Understanding the time filter
Understanding the toolbar
Understanding the Fields list
Understanding document data
Summary
3
Exploring the Visualize Page
Exploring the Visualize Page
Understanding aggregations
Steps for designing visualization
An explanation of visualization types
Summary
4
Exploring the Dashboard Page
Exploring the Dashboard Page
Understanding the toolbar
Understanding the dashboard canvas
Embedding a dashboard in a web page
Understanding the debug panel
Summary
5
Exploring the Settings Page
Exploring the Settings Page
Indices
Advanced
Objects
About
Summary
6
Real-Time Twitter Data Analysis
Real-Time Twitter Data Analysis
The installation of Logstash
The workflow for real-time Twitter data analysis
Creating a Twitter developer account
Creating a Logstash configuration file
Creating visualizations for scenarios
Summary
References
References
Chapter 1, An Introduction to Kibana
Chapter 2, Exploring the Discover Page
Chapter 3, Exploring the Visualize Page
Chapter 4, Exploring the Dashboard Page
Chapter 5, Exploring the Settings Page
Chapter 6, Real-Time Twitter Data Analysis
Index
Index

Understanding the dashboard canvas

The dashboard canvas provides a preview of all saved visualizations added to the dashboard. As every added visualization appears on the dashboard canvas within a container, we will explore various ways of customizing these containers. By customizing these containers, we can easily create a beautiful visualization.

Moving visualizations

In a dashboard, you can rearrange the added visualizations as per your liking. We can move the container that has visualizations anywhere in the dashboard.

To move containers, perform these steps:

  1. Click and drag the container title bar (heading) using the mouse.

  2. Release the button where you wish to confirm the new location for the visualization.

    Note

    While you are moving a container, other containers will shift as per the size of the moving container.

Resizing visualizations

In a dashboard, you can also resize the added visualizations as per your liking. You can resize the container containing visualizations anywhere in the dashboard...

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