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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)

Inspecting visualizations

We can inspect a visualization to see the actual data behind the graphical visualization. We can also see the statistics, such as the number of total hits, index pattern, query time, request time, and so on, or the actual request JSON of Elasticsearch and the actual response JSON of Elasticsearch. We can also download the formatted or raw CSV data from the inspect screen. The following screenshot shows us the data view of Inspect:

The preceding screenshot shows the inspect view of the data for the apache_response_codes area chart we created earlier. In this view, we can see the tabular data display's response code and total requests. From this data view screen, we can download the raw or pre-formatted CSV data. We can change this data view to the requests view by changing it through the View dropdown in the top-right corner of the page. After changing...