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

By : Krishna Shah
Book Image

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

Understanding saved objects in Kibana

Any object that we create on Kibana that includes an index pattern, a visualization, a canvas pad, or a dashboard is defined as a saved object. We can view, edit, export, and import these saved objects by going to the Kibana main menu and clicking on Stack Management | Saved Objects:

Figure 2.9 – Dialog box with Saved Objects under Stack Management in the Kibana main menu

Figure 2.9 – Dialog box with Saved Objects under Stack Management in the Kibana main menu

Import and Export are key functionalities that can help us to move objects across different Kibana instances or can be beneficial when we have different working environments.

Saved Objects also has a feature to share any of these saved objects across different spaces on Kibana, which will enable different users on your Kibana environment to be able to see/view/edit/delete these objects based on the permissions and authorizations we set. We will learn more about role-based access control (RBAC) in the upcoming chapters.