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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 covered Kibana Timelion features and expressions, through which we can create graphs. There were different styling functions, which can be applied to make graphs more effective and meaningful, such as .color() and .label(). Apart from styling functions, we also discussed other mathematical functions, which can be used to perform various mathematical operations on series data.

Furthermore, we covered various data sources such as Elasticsearch, static, and the World Bank and how we can use them for creating graphs. These data sources provide us the functions through which we can directly use their data into our graphs.

We also covered how to use the offset parameter to plot time difference graphs for getting instant information about how data has evolved over time and through which the management can take decisions. We also explained the GDP trend through offset parameter by taking the World Bank data source.

Then, we covered various options that we can use in Timelion...