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Learning Kibana 7 - Second Edition

By : Anurag Srivastava, Bahaaldine Azarmi
Book Image

Learning Kibana 7 - Second Edition

By: Anurag Srivastava, Bahaaldine Azarmi

Overview of this book

<p>Kibana is a window into the Elastic Stack that enables the visual exploration and real-time analysis of your data in Elasticsearch. This book will help you understand how you can use Kibana 7 for rich analytics and data visualization. </p><p>If you’re new to the tool or want to get to grips with the latest features introduced in Kibana 7, this book is the perfect beginner's guide. You’ll learn how to set up and configure the Elastic Stack and understand where Kibana sits within the architecture. As you advance, you’ll learn how to ingest data from different sources using Beats or Logstash into Elasticsearch, followed by exploring and visualizing data in Kibana. Whether working with time-series data to create complex graphs using Timelion or embedding visualizations created in Kibana into your web applications, this book covers it all. It also covers topics that every Elastic developer needs to be aware of, such as installing and configuring application performance monitoring (APM) servers and agents. Finally, you’ll also learn how to create effective machine learning jobs in Kibana to find anomalies in your data. </p><p>By the end of this book, you’ll have a solid understanding of Kibana, and be able to create your own visual analytics solutions from scratch.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Understanding Kibana 7
4
Section 2: Exploring the Data
7
Section 3: Tools for Playing with Your Data
10
Section 4: Advanced Kibana Options

Creating dashboards in Kibana

So, we have covered how to create different types of visualizations in Kibana; now, let's see how we can integrate different types of visualizations to create the dashboard. Dashboards are quite useful, as they provide us with a single view to monitor the KPI. To create a dashboard in Kibana, we need to do the following:

  1. Click on the Dashboard link from the left-hand menu, which will open the dashboards page with a list of the existing dashboards.
  2. We can click on any existing dashboard to open the dashboard. But as we want to create a new one, click on the Create new dashboard button in the top-right corner of the page.
  3. This will open a blank page with the message This dashboard is empty. Let’s fill it up!.
  4. Click on the Add button to add the visualizations; this will open Add Panels screen, as shown here:

In the preceding screenshot...