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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

Data tables


The data table is a tabular form of data display in which we can add columns as per our requirements. The data table is quite helpful as it gives us a tabular display of data, and by using the filter, we can drill down and get details of the different fields that we have added using the table.

Creating the data table

To create the data table, we need to click on the data table box on the chart type selection page. Now, we need to click on the index named metricbeat-* on the Choose search source page, which will open the default page with a count of all the documents on the tabular view. To create the data table, we need to do the following:

  1. Click on Split Rows under the Buckets option.
  2. Select Terms under the Aggregation option.
  3. Select metricset.name under the Field option.
  4. Now, click on the Add sub-bucket button on the bottom of the page, which will open another split rows block.
  5. Repeat steps 1 to 3 for the other fields.
  1. Click on the Apply changes button to refresh the data table:

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