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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

Timelion auto-refresh


The Timelion autorefresh option is quite handy. This is because, in order to check changes in the data, we need to click on the Submit button, but using the autorefresh option, we can set the page refresh rate. For example, if we set autorefresh to 5 seconds, the page will refresh automatically after every 5 seconds and we can easily see the changes without clicking on the Submit button every time:

In the preceding screenshot, we have multiple options from 5 seconds to 1 day for setting the autorefresh interval.