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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

Getting an overview of Kibana

Kibana is a powerful tool for data discovery, analysis, visualization, and security. It’s designed for administrators, analysts, and business users to manage, monitor, and secure their Elastic Stack deployments. Kibana provides a comprehensive suite of features for searching, observing, and protecting data. It’s easy to quickly find documents and uncover hidden insights, visualize results in charts, gauges, maps, graphs, and more, and combine them in a dashboard. Analysts can explore and analyze data with the help of Kibana’s sophisticated query language, and administrators can manage and monitor the health of their Elastic Stack cluster.

It is a great tool for a wide range of use cases. For instance, it can be used to monitor website traffic, search log files for errors and anomalies, and even detect security vulnerabilities. It can also be used to analyze customer data for marketing campaigns, track events for compliance, and...