Exploring data views
Data views are structures that help us navigate Elasticsearch’s dataset in Kibana. Moreover, if you need to access data or start exploring anything, Kibana needs a data view. For example, a data view can point to one or more indices that have come up until now.
If you’ve added integration for new data, uploaded a file, or added sample data, data views will be created automatically by Kibana. However, if you are ingesting your own data, then we can perform the following steps to create a data view:
- Go to the Kibana main menu and click on Stack Management | Data views | Data Views under Kibana. You should then see a screen like this:
Figure 2.1 – The first step of creating a data view on Kibana
- Once you click on Create Data View, it opens up a window to name the data view and add the @timestamp field of your dataset, which has date/timestamp information. The next screenshot shows this...
