Kibana depends on Elasticsearch in order to read the indices and generate visualizations and dashboards. Very often, we need to interact with the Elasticsearch cluster to get some details, fetch data, and delete records or indices for which we have to do the curl request either from the Elasticsearch client or console. Kibana provides a console from where we can directly interact with Elasticsearch APIs. It not only provides the editor but also many other features that are quite useful, as follows:
- Syntax completion
- Formatting of expressions
- Copying the
curlcommand to execute from Terminal
It also provides an output window in which we can see the Elasticsearch response. Therefore, on a single window, we have an input window for the Elasticsearch expression and an output window to get the results of the expression that we are going to execute.
Dev Tools also provides us the History tab through which we can see the queries that we had executed...