The core of Kibana are the dashboards--an aggregation of widgets that are results of queries and aggregations.
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.
You also need a functional Kibana installation as described in the Installing Kibana and X-Pack recipe.
For managing Kibana dashboards, we will perform the following steps:
We access the Discovery section of Kibana as shown in the following screenshot:
After a few seconds, the default search frontend should appear. The default query is
*
, which is executed against the_all
field.