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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

Creating Data Views and Introducing Spaces

If you’ve been wondering when we will really start working on Kibana, now is the time!

In the last chapter, we explored the installation, configuration, and starting/stopping of Kibana, along with looking at different ways to add data. Now is the time to start taking a deep dive into how we explore our data in Kibana. The first and foremost step is to create a data view (it was called an index pattern in older versions of Kibana) through Kibana’s UI page. We will see the step-by-step process of how to create them, explore them for fields and field mappings (data types), and make the best sense of our data.

Here are the topics we’ll now start exploring:

  • Exploring data views
  • Creating spaces
  • Understanding saved objects in Kibana