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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)

Timelion

Timelion is a data visualizer designed to work on time-series data. Timelion works on different independent data sources and can be used to integrate them in a single visualization. In Timelion, we have a relatively simple expression language that helps us to retrieve time-series data, perform mathematical calculations, and change the color, label, and other calculations in order to create complex visualizations that are difficult to create using Kibana visualization. We have a Help link in the top-right corner; we can open the function reference by clicking on the link. The following screenshot shows the function reference:

In the screenshot, we can see all available functions in Timelion and, by clicking on the function name, we can get the details, such as available parameters. We can chain these functions to get the desired visualization.

So, we will take the example...