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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have covered the process of creating the dashboard after creating and integrating the visualization, and then we looked at how we can apply a filter on it. We have seen four different ways of filtering; for example, searching the required field or searching across all the fields to drill down through dashboard visualizations. Then, we covered how to apply filters using the add a filter link on the top menu. The filter option not only provides us with the box to do all kinds of filtering, but also provides us with a way to convert the filter that we have created using Kibana UI in an Elasticsearch query DSL.

We have also covered how we can save the dashboard for further use and share it with others by sharing the static dashboard or most recent dashboard that reflects all the new changes. We can edit this to do things, such as reorder the visualizations to move the key performance indicators on top or resize the visualizations to show them as per their size or area...