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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

Customizing a graph

We can customize the appearance of vertices in our graphs by applying personalized colors and icons. Additionally, we have the ability to configure the number of vertices that are added to the graph during a search operation. We can also block certain terms and do many more things.

Each vertex in the graph is associated with a color, icon, and label. If you wish to modify the color or icon for all vertices within a specific category, locate the style icon in the control bar and click on it, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.7 – Styling options for vertices in graphs in Kibana

Figure 7.7 – Styling options for vertices in graphs in Kibana

By default, the graph feature is designed to filter out unnecessary noise from your data. However, if this default setting does not align with your specific dataset, you have the option to make adjustments. Simply navigate to the Settings menu and select Advanced settings. From there, you can fine-tune how the graph queries your data, ensuring...