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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

Console

Kibana Dev Tools is a development tool that can be used to interact with the Elasticsearch index. In Dev Tools, we have a screen with a console plugin. Console plugin has UI through which we can interact with Elasticsearch using REST API. Console UI has the following two blocks:

  • Editor: We can request the Elasticsearch cluster through statements or queries using the REST API
  • Response pane: This shows the response of the Elasticsearch request:

In the previous screen, we can see the left and right block. The left block is a request editor where we can write the Elasticsearch queries, and the right block is a response pane on which we can get the response from Elasticsearch.

The request editor provides the feature of syntax completion, as seen in the following screen:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, when we started typing _sea, the suggestion box opened with different...

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