Visualization options in Kibana

Kibana has multiple options for visualizing data; all of them have distinct and similar options in terms of charting the data, whether that be line, bar, pie, data tables, or gauges.

What really differentiates them is either the user experience or the use case they are serving. First, we'll briefly introduce the different available visualizations and then use them later in this chapter to highlight some of Elastic ML's insights.

Visualization examples

In Kibana, if you click on the Visualize option in the left-hand side panel, you will be given the opportunity to create visualization panels for dashboards with different chart types. Clicking on the add (+) button shows the following...