Before creating a pie chart, we need to understand the different terminology that's used in Kibana for creating visualizations. So, for chart creation, in which we will discuss the pie chart for now, we need to perform Elasticsearch aggregation. There are mainly two categories of aggregation that we need to configure for creating pie charts: metric aggregation and bucket aggregation.
Pie charts
Metric aggregation
The total slice size of a pie chart is calculated by the metrics aggregation. In the case of a pie chart, we have the following aggregations:
- Count: This aggregation is the count of documents in the selected index pattern.
- Sum: This aggregation returns the total sum of a numeric field. After choosing this...
