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Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis

You're reading from   Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis Learn about data exploration, visualization, and dashboard building with Kibana

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232164
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Krishna Shah Krishna Shah
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Exploring Kibana
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Kibana FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating Data Views and Introducing Spaces 4. Chapter 3: Discovering the Data through Discover 5. Part 2: Visualizations in Kibana
6. Chapter 4: How About We Visualize? 7. Chapter 5: Powering Visualizations with Near Real-Time Updates 8. Part 3: Analytics on a Dashboard
9. Chapter 6: Data Analysis with Machine Learning 10. Chapter 7: Graph Visualization 11. Chapter 8: Finally, the Dashboard 12. Part 4: Querying on Kibana and Advanced Concepts
13. Chapter 9: ES|QL and Advanced Kibana Concepts 14. Chapter 10: Query DSL and Management through Kibana 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring Lens visualizations

If you’re a newbie in the field of visualizing data, then you have come to the right place! If you are not sure how you wish to get started on creating a visualization or which type of visualization you wish to use to represent your data, Lens is a great way to simply drag and drop the fields you want to build a graph on. And voilà – it will create a vertical bar graph to start with. We can change the type of the graph to any other representation that we prefer later.

The ease and flexibility of the drag-and-drop experience is what makes the Lens visualization one sure spot for pretty much everything that one wishes to do with representing data in the form of a visualization.

Let us look at the process of creating a sample Lens visualization process step by step:

  1. Get to know the Lens page; there is a name for everything on the interface, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 4.1 – Layout of the Lens interface in Kibana

Figure 4.1 –...

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