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Mastering Kibana 6.x

You're reading from   Mastering Kibana 6.x Visualize your Elastic Stack data with histograms, maps, charts, and graphs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831031
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anurag Srivastava Anurag Srivastava
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Preface 1. Revising the ELK Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard 3. Exploring Your Data 4. Visualizing the Data 5. Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators 6. Handling Time Series Data with Timelion 7. Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools 8. Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management 9. Understanding X-Pack Features 10. Machine Learning with Kibana 11. Create Super Cool Dashboard from a Web Application 12. Different Use Cases of Kibana 13. Creating Monitoring Dashboards Using Beats 14. Best Practices 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring the dashboard

The main reason for any dashboard creation is to have a better understanding of the data we have. It could be any data, such as system metrics, log data, application data, or transactional data. But just by looking at the data, we will not get any insight because if it is too small, only we will be able to get any information out of it, which means that it is going to be a really tough task to make any decisions using that data. To make life easier and to understand the data we used to create the dashboard, we use the top management and decision makers to understand the data and make quick decisions. As we have created and saved the dashboard, we are now going to explore it in different ways. The dashboard shows the graphical representation of key performance indicators for our data and in order to get these details, we have the option to drill down further...

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