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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 (16 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Revising the ELK Stack
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Revising the ELK Stack
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What is ELK Stack?
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Installing the ELK Stack
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ELK use cases
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Summary
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Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard
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Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard
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Setting up the stage
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Creating the dashboard
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Summary
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Exploring Your Data
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Exploring Your Data
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Kibana Discover
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Discovering data using Kibana Discover
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Exploring Kibana Discover to access packet data
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Summary
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Visualizing the Data
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Visualizing the Data
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Creating visualizations
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Pie charts
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Bar charts
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Area charts
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Data metrics
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Data tables
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Tag clouds
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Markdown
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Sharing visualizations
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Summary
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Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators
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Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators
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Creating the dashboard
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Arranging visualizations
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Exploring the dashboard
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Summary
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Handling Time Series Data with Timelion
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Handling Time Series Data with Timelion
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Timelion interface
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Timeline expression
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.es function parameters
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Chainable methods
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Data source functions
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Saving Timelion graph
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Timelion sheet option
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Deleting Timelion sheet
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Timelion help
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Timelion auto-refresh
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Summary
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Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools
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Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools
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Console
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Profiling queries
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Grok debugger
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Summary
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Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management
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Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management
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Index pattern
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Saved objects
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Advanced settings
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Reporting
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Security
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Watcher
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Understanding X-Pack Features
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Understanding X-Pack Features
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Installing X-Pack
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Features of X-Pack
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Machine Learning with Kibana
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Machine Learning with Kibana
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Machine learning jobs
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Create a machine learning job
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Create Super Cool Dashboard from a Web Application
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Create Super Cool Dashboard from a Web Application
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JDBC input plugin
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Configuring Logstash for database input
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Creating a dashboard using MySQL data
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Different Use Cases of Kibana
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Different Use Cases of Kibana
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Time-series data handling
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A visual builder for handling time series data
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GeoIP for Elastic Stack
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Creating Monitoring Dashboards Using Beats
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Creating Monitoring Dashboards Using Beats
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Configuring the Beats
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Creating visualizations using Beat data
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Creating the dashboard
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Importing Beat dashboards
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Best Practices
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Best Practices
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Requirement of test environment
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Picking the right time filter field
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Avoiding large document indexing
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Avoiding sparsity
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Avoiding wildcard searches
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Configuring Logstash for database input

I am taking the example of a blog website that is built using a MySQL database. Basically, we are going to configure Logstash using JDBC input plugin to connect with a MySQL database. After connecting to the MySQL database, we will run the query to fetch the records from the database and will push that record into the Elasticsearch index.

Basically, a blog website is running using the data from the MySQL database and I don't want to change anything in my application, but I still want to get the insight of the blog data. This is an ideal situation where Elastic Stack can do the magic, as we just need to connect to the MySQL database and run a query to get the data; once the data is in, we can create a query that can be scheduled to get the new and updated records. Once this architecture is in place, we can test it by inserting a new record into the database and ensuring that record is also inserted into Elasticsearch.

Once we are getting the data from...

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