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Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide Visualize your Elasticsearch data with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789804034
Length 172 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anurag Srivastava Anurag Srivastava
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Use cases of Timelion

There are different use cases where we can use Timelion, such as if we want to plot a graph with metrics of a certain field value. Using Timelion, we can plot a graph where, on the same axis, we can show the current data and historical data. This view helps us to track the difference quite easily. Timelion also provides the option to fetch data from different indices for a single visualization, meaning unlike Kibana Visualize, here we can refer multiple Elasticsearch indexes to create a single graph. It has different functions that can work together to create complex data visualizations that cannot be created in Kibana Visualize. Let's look at some examples one by one—we will see how Timelion can be used.

Let's look at an example of Metricbeat data. Suppose we want to see the sum of the total virtual memory the process has. To do that, we...

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