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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “For example, GET _ml/info will simply return the result of the current machine learning jobs on the cluster.”

A block of code is set as follows:

GET _ml/memory/<node_id>/_stats
GET _ml/memory/_stats

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

<iframe src="https://juxwycstgeesmshyp-xxxxxxxxxxx.rp.strigo.io/app/r/s/xAwTf" height="600" width="800"></iframe>

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “Inside the Documents layer, select data view/Index pattern you wish to work on and the Geospatial field, and then click on Add layer at the bottom.”

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