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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

Discovering the Data through Discover

So, you’ve got your data in. Now it’s time to answer questions. What countries in the world have the maximum number of people working in IT? What events have the runtime error 404? Which customers are making the highest contribution to the profit?

All of these questions (and more!) can be discovered right on this interface. It is finally time to start exploring our dataset through the very interesting interface in Kibana, called Discover. Right when you start collecting and ingesting your data from your data sources, Discover in Kibana will be one place you would like to go and kickstart your exploration of the dataset. From which fields are coming in to how your data is structured with respect to the datatypes of the fields, everything can be visible in Discover. It also has an amazing query feature, which serves as your own custom search functionality placed over whatever dataset you have in the Elasticsearch cluster.

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