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Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide

By : Anurag Srivastava
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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)

X-Pack with Machine Learning

In this chapter, we will cover the features of X-Pack, as Elastic Stack comes without X-Pack. We will discuss some of the features that are missing if we are not using X-Pack's security, which can be activated by the multi-tenant element, by enabling the user and roles, and we can also control what needs to be displayed for each role. After security, we have monitoring, which helps us to oversee our Elastic Stack and provides an audit to check whether everything is working correctly. We can supervise the Elasticsearch overview, nodes, indices, and Kibana overview, instances, and so on. From this overview page, we can obtain the details by clicking on the links on nodes, indices, overview, instances, and so on.

Reporting is another feature that is available under X-Pack. Reporting can be used to generate PDF reports from visualizations and dashboards...