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Learning Kibana 5.0

You're reading from   Learning Kibana 5.0 Exploit the visualization capabilities of Kibana and build powerful interactive dashboards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463005
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bahaaldine Azarmi Bahaaldine Azarmi
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Kibana anatomy

In this section, I'll present the different sections present in Kibana 5.0, without necessarily diving into them, as we are going to do this later in the chapters dedicated to logging, metrics, and graphs.

First, connect to https://localhost:5601, log in with the default elastic / changeme, and let's see what the Kibana menu is composed of:

Kibana anatomy

Kibana menu

The Kibana menu contains two types of sections:

  • Links to Kibana core features: Discover, Visualize, Dashboard, and Console
  • Links to Kibana plugins: Timelion, Graph, Monitoring, the elastic user, and Logout

Before we start, let's go into a common Kibana user experience:

Kibana anatomy

Kibana user experience

Since Kibana 5.0, the user can have a seamless experience, from ingestion to visualization, all from Kibana itself:

  • If the user doesn't have data yet, he can import it using the CSV importer (only available in Kibana alpha version; has been removed in 5.0 GA).
  • If the data already exists in Elasticsearch, the user needs to...
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