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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

Chapter 12. Different Use Cases of Kibana

In the previous chapters, we covered various features that Kibana provides and how we can use those features for performing various tasks; for example, using Discover, we can get an insight into our data using search and filter options. Visualize can help us create different type of graphs, metrics, and data tables, and so on.

In the dashboard, we can integrate these visualizations to display the key performance indicators, save them, or share them with other users. Timelion is there to play with time series data. It provides us with the flexibility to play with different indices together, and we can apply the function chaining to get the desired output. Dev Tools are there to run Elasticsearch queries directly from the Kibana console so that we can see the request and response on the same screen and format the expression using the formatting tool.

In this way, we covered the features and methods to work with these options of Kibana. Now, in this chapter...