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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)

Data visualization

In the previous chapter, we covered Kibana Discover, using which we can explore our data to understand it better. Using Discover, we can do lots of things, but when it comes to showing your complete data in a single view, we need a visualization. So, when we talk about data visualization, we mean a process to display data in the form of graphical charts, bars, maps, or any sort of visual representation. Data visualization provides us a way to understand more about the data, such as what is the trend, anomalies in data, or the pattern of the data quite easily.

Data aggregation

Now, if we talk about Kibana Visualize, it uses Elasticsearch aggregation for creating visualizations. So, basically, in the background...