In this chapter, we covered dashboard creation by directly fetching RDBMS data using the JDBC input plugin. Using this plugin, we can write the queries to fetch the data from RDBMS and save that data into Elasticsearch using Logstash pipelining.
Here, Logstash uses JDBC input plugin to query the RDBMS server directly, and after getting that data through input, it passes that data into Elasticsearch. Once the data is added into Elasticsearch, we can use that data in Kibana by creating the index pattern.
After creating the index pattern, we can create different visualizations as per our requirement and then integrate those visualizations to create the dashboard. Once the dashboard is created, we can edit and save it for further use. In this way, we covered the dashboard creation using RDBMS data.