You're reading from Getting Started with Elastic Stack 8.0 Run powerful and scalable data platforms to search, observe, and secure your organization

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569492

Length 474 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

Enterprise Search

Author (1):

Asjad Athick

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Core Components

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Elastic Stack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing and Running the Elastic Stack

4. Section 2: Working with the Elastic Stack

5. Chapter 3: Indexing and Searching for Data

6. Chapter 4: Leveraging Insights and Managing Data on Elasticsearch

7. Chapter 5: Running Machine Learning Jobs on Elasticsearch

8. Chapter 6: Collecting and Shipping Data with Beats

9. Chapter 7: Using Logstash to Extract, Transform, and Load Data

10. Chapter 8: Interacting with Your Data on Kibana

11. Chapter 9: Managing Data Onboarding with Elastic Agent

12. Section 3: Building Solutions with the Elastic Stack

13. Chapter 10: Building Search Experiences Using the Elastic Stack

14. Chapter 11: Observing Applications and Infrastructure Using the Elastic Stack

15. Chapter 12: Security Threat Detection and Response Using the Elastic Stack

16. Chapter 13: Architecting Workloads on the Elastic Stack

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Visualizing data with dashboards

Dashboards in Kibana are the primary tool to visualize datasets in order to understand what the data means. Users generally spend a significant chunk of their time on Kibana working with dashboards; well-designed dashboards can efficiently communicate important metrics, trends in activity, and any potential issues to look out for.

The Nginx dashboard shown in the following screenshot (available out of the box) visualizes source geo-locations, web server response codes over time, common error types, and top resources accessed on the web server. An engineer eyeballing this data can spot something out of the ordinary. If, for example, HTTP 5xx response codes suddenly start increasing for a given resource on the server, the engineer can quickly narrow down potential issues and proceed to fix them before end users are impacted:

Figure 8.5 – Nginx logs dashboard

Dashboards are designed to work interactively. Most visualizations...