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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

Kibana Discover


In Kibana, we have a Discover link on the left-hand side menu to discover our data. After configuring the Elasticsearch index, we can click on the Discover link, which will open the following screen:

In the preceding screen, we can see our data in tabular format with Time and _source. Time shows the exact date and time of data insertion in Elasticsearch and _source shows data in JSON format. In each row of data, we have an icon in front of the date and time to expand the view. When we expand the row, it shows us the following two tabs:

  • Table: This is used to show the data in tabular format
  • JSON: This is used to show the data in JSON format

Apart from the tab, there are two buttons, which are as follows:

  • View surrounding documents: By default, it shows five surrounding documents along with the selected document
  • View single document: This button opens the selected document only

The following screenshot shows the details of a single document from the index pattern on the Discover page...