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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

Machine learning jobs


In Kibana in order to run any machine learning analysis, we used to create the machine learning job and execute that in order to get the result. A job contains the configuration and meta-data information needed to perform the machine learning task. There are one or more detectors for each job that applies the analytical function to specific fields of our data. The job also has properties that affect the anomaly consideration through types of events or entities. For example, we can specify that entities are analyzed based on other entities in data, or relative to their own previous behavior.

For running machine learning jobs, we have a UI in Kibana through which we can execute different types of machine learning jobs. We need to click on the machine learning link on the left-hand, which will open the following screen:

In this screenshot, we can see an empty page with a button because we have not created any job yet. By clicking on Create new job, we can open the index...