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Kibana Essentials

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Kibana Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Kibana Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding the toolbar


The toolbar is one of the most crucial components of the Discover page, which helps with powerful analysis of data based on search queries and filters as applied. It is used for specifying the search query that is used for analyzing the data. Whenever a search query is specified, it checks in all documents and returns results of the matching search query. The toolbar consists of a search bar along with option buttons such as new search, save search, and load saved search.

Let's understand the usage of different options of the toolbar in detail.

Using the search bar

The search bar is used to search for a particular word, for example, a term either contained in all the documents or for searching for a particular term in a specific field in all the documents. Whenever a search query is submitted, it matches the documents of the selected index and returns the results. For searching a query, you can specify basic simple strings or use Apache Lucene query syntax. As Kibana...