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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.
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Timelion interface


On Kibana, we have a link Timelion on the left menu and by clicking on it we can open the Timelion interface:

On the Timelion screen, we can see a textbox with the .es(*) expression, which denotes that currently we are getting data from all the indices. The .es function counts the number of documents in Elasticsearch and creates the default graph showing the amount of documents created over a selected time span. It shows the default query, which fetches everything from Elasticsearch and draws it over time. In front of the expression box, we have a dropdown to set the refresh duration and below that dropdown we have an execute button, which is used to run the query written inside the expression box.

We have a visualization below the expression box, which shows the timeseries graph. Timelion provides with us hints such as, if we put a dot after .es(*), then Kibana will show us the list of functions available in a dropdown:

 

We can see the functions in the dropdown in ascending...

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