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Mastering Kibana 6.x

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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.

Preface

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Revising the ELK Stack

What is ELK Stack?

Installing the ELK Stack

ELK use cases

Summary

Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard

Setting up the stage

Creating the dashboard

Summary

Exploring Your Data

Kibana Discover

Discovering data using Kibana Discover

Exploring Kibana Discover to access packet data

Summary

Visualizing the Data

Creating visualizations

Pie charts

Bar charts

Area charts

Data metrics

Data tables

Tag clouds

Markdown

Sharing visualizations

Summary

Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators

Creating the dashboard

Arranging visualizations

Exploring the dashboard

Summary

Handling Time Series Data with Timelion

Timelion interface

Timeline expression

.es function parameters

Chainable methods

Data source functions

Saving Timelion graph

Timelion sheet option

Deleting Timelion sheet

Timelion help

Timelion auto-refresh

Summary

Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools

Console

Profiling queries

Grok debugger

Summary

Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management

Index pattern

Saved objects

Advanced settings

Reporting

Security

Watcher

Summary

Understanding X-Pack Features

Installing X-Pack

Features of X-Pack

Summary

Machine Learning with Kibana

Machine learning jobs

Create a machine learning job

Summary

Create Super Cool Dashboard from a Web Application

JDBC input plugin

Configuring Logstash for database input

Creating a dashboard using MySQL data

Summary

Different Use Cases of Kibana

Time-series data handling

A visual builder for handling time series data

GeoIP for Elastic Stack

Summary

Creating Monitoring Dashboards Using Beats

Configuring the Beats

Creating visualizations using Beat data

Creating the dashboard

Importing Beat dashboards

Summary

Best Practices

Requirement of test environment

Picking the right time filter field

Avoiding large document indexing

Avoiding sparsity

Avoiding wildcard searches

Summary

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Exploring Your Data

In the last chapter, we learned how to create a dashboard from Apache log files for which we have made a complete ELK Stack. Logstash was used to take an Apache log as input and then output the log data into an Elasticsearch server. We used Elasticsearch to save that log data in an index. Finally, we used Kibana to use the Elasticsearch index in order to create a dashboard after creating visualizations. This was just a brief introduction to understanding the complete ecosystem.

In this chapter, we will deep dive to understand how we can use the Discover option of Kibana to explore our data. We can only create our visualization after exploring and understanding our data.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics: