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Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis

By : Krishna Shah
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Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis

By: Krishna Shah

Overview of this book

Unleash the full potential of Kibana—an indispensable tool for data analysts to seamlessly explore vast datasets, uncover key insights, identify trends and anomalies, and share results. This book guides you through its user-friendly interface, interactive visualizations, and robust features, including real-time data monitoring and advanced analytics, showing you how Kibana revolutionizes your approach to navigating and analyzing complex datasets. Starting with the foundational steps of installing, configuring, and running Kibana, this book progresses systematically to explain the search and data visualization capabilities for data stored in the Elasticsearch cluster. You’ll then delve into the practical details of creating data views and optimizing spaces to better organize the analysis environment. As you advance, you'll get to grips with using the discover interface and learn how to build different types of extensive visualizations using Lens. By the end of this book, you’ll have a complete understanding of how Kibana works, helping you leverage its capabilities to build an analytics and visualization solution from scratch for your data-driven use case.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Exploring Kibana
5
Part 2: Visualizations in Kibana
8
Part 3: Analytics on a Dashboard
12
Part 4: Querying on Kibana and Advanced Concepts

Graph Visualization

The capabilities of graph analytics allow you to uncover the relationships between items within an Elasticsearch index. By examining the connections between indexed terms, you can identify the most significant associations. This functionality has a wide range of applications, including fraud detection and recommendation engines.

For instance, through graph exploration, you can reveal the specific website vulnerabilities that hackers are targeting, empowering you to strengthen your website’s security. Additionally, you can leverage graph-based personalized recommendations to enhance the shopping experience for your e-commerce customers. It relies solely on shared values between documents to establish connections, enabling the creation of an interconnected network of related terms within the index.

We are going to look into the following key concepts relating to how graphs are created, configured, and troubleshooted when necessary:

  • Creating a...