In this chapter, we covered how to visualize the data once it is available in Kibana, after creating the index pattern. We started with basic charts, where we covered creating chart such as the area chart, heat map, and pie charts, and so on. We also covered how we can transform one type of chart into another by giving examples of an area chart, line chart, and bar chart; in the same way, we can change a pie chart into a donut, or vice versa. After that, we have covered data tables, using which we can generate a tabular visualization of data, to which we can add additional metrics columns, along with actual data columns. Then, we covered the metric type of visualization, where we can display some metric value, and tag cloud, which can be used to display a word cloud with a link to filter the data.
We covered dashboard creation by integrating visualizations and arranging...
