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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 Dev Tools and the ways in which we can interact to Elasticsearch. It has a console to run Elasticsearch queries directly from Kibana. In a console, we can write multiple queries and can execute them all by simply selecting them all and clicking on the execute button. Dev Tools sends all queries to Elasticsearch one by one and then shows the results on the right pane as soon as it receives the response from Elasticsearch.

Console has other options as well, such as query formatting, through which we can properly format the Elasticsearch query from an unformatted query to a formatted syntax. If we click on the same link, it will convert the formatted query to a compact single-line formatted view and vice versa. Another option is to copy the Elasticsearch query from it console in curl format. After copying the query in the curl format, we can directly paste on terminal to execute it. This option is quite handy, as we don't need to remember the curl format...