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Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide

By : Anurag Srivastava
Book Image

Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide

By: Anurag Srivastava

Overview of this book

The Elastic Stack is growing rapidly and, day by day, additional tools are being added to make it more effective. This book endeavors to explain all the important aspects of Kibana, which is essential for utilizing its full potential. This book covers the core concepts of Kibana, with chapters set out in a coherent manner so that readers can advance their learning in a step-by-step manner. The focus is on a practical approach, thereby enabling the reader to apply those examples in real time for a better understanding of the concepts and to provide them with the correct skills in relation to the tool. With its succinct explanations, it is quite easy for a reader to use this book as a reference guide for learning basic to advanced implementations of Kibana. The practical examples, such as the creation of Kibana dashboards from CSV data, application RDBMS data, system metrics data, log file data, APM agents, and search results, can provide readers with a number of different drop-off points from where they can fetch any type of data into Kibana for the purpose of analysis or dashboarding.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Exploring Data

In this chapter, we'll learn how to play with data and get the desired information by exploring it. In Kibana, we have the Discover tab, which provides you with features to explore your data. We can do many things under Discover, such as limit the number of field displays to focus on what you want to see. Say you're only interested in few columns; you can add only them in your data display. You can filter your data using the Elasticsearch data filter; it offers a handy option where you can directly apply the filter on your data. Apart from the data filter, we can apply a time-based filter. Let's say we want to see the data of last week only; this can easily be filtered using the time-based filter. Then, we have the Elasticsearch query language, which can be directly applied using the intuitive interface of Kibana, so we can run a very simple query...