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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

Sharing the dashboard

Kibana offers a variety of ways to share your saved searches, dashboards, Visualize Library visualizations, and Canvas workpads. To access these options, simply navigate to the Share menu in the toolbar. From there, you can choose from several sharing options that are available to you, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.11 – The Share option on the dashboard

Figure 8.11 – The Share option on the dashboard

When we click the Share option, it gives us two ways to report and other ways to share the dashboard. When we see the reporting side of it, we can generate a PDF report, as shown here:

Figure 8.12 – The PDF Reports option on the dashboard

Figure 8.12 – The PDF Reports option on the dashboard

Upon clicking the Generate PDF option, it will simply download the dashboard on the local system as a PDF file. If optimized for printing, it will ensure to print all the pages in A4 size, which makes the viewing of the dashboard easier.

Alternatively, for users who intend to report the...