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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

Understanding how to create TSVB visualizations

To get started with TSVB, simply open the tool and customize the necessary settings. With TSVB, you have the flexibility to create visualizations using only data views or Elasticsearch index strings. When utilizing data views, you gain the ability to create visualizations with runtime fields, incorporate URL drilldowns, add interactive filters for time series visualizations, and ultimately, enhance performance.

The path to navigate to TSVB is the Kibana homepage | Visualize library | New visualization | TSVB.

The screen should look like this:

Figure 5.1 – Navigating to TSVB

Figure 5.1 – Navigating to TSVB

TSVB provides users with the ability to create multiple series, which essentially act as separate Elasticsearch aggregations. Users can utilize the Options tab, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 5.2 – The Options tab in TSVB

Figure 5.2 – The Options tab in TSVB

Here, users can control the styling and formatting options...