This chapter covered the Kibana management, through which we can tweak the behavior of Kibana. Then, we covered the index pattern where first we created the index pattern by taking the server-metrics index of Elasticsearch.

After creating an index pattern, we covered the set as the default index pattern feature of Management, through which we can set any index pattern as a default. This is quite helpful. As for discover, visualize, and dashboard, we need not worry about the index pattern selection in case we want to work on any particular index.

Then, we went through the refresh index field, through which we can update any change in Elasticsearch index into the Kibana index pattern. After refreshing, we looked at the delete index pattern, through which we can delete any index from Kibana.

We can configure the index fields by setting it through managing fields. Here, we can set the format and transform the values as per the field type. The saved objects option of management is there...