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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

You're reading from   Learning Elastic Stack 6.0 A beginner's guide to distributed search, analytics, and visualization using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281868
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sharath Kumar Sharath Kumar
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Pranav Shukla Pranav Shukla
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Preface 1. Introducing Elastic Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Elasticsearch 3. Searching-What is Relevant 4. Analytics with Elasticsearch 5. Analyzing Log Data 6. Building Data Pipelines with Logstash 7. Visualizing data with Kibana 8. Elastic X-Pack 9. Running Elastic Stack in Production 10. Building a Sensor Data Analytics Application 11. Monitoring Server Infrastructure

Kibana UI


Open up Kibana from the browser using the http://localhost:5601 URL. The landing page will look as follows:

User interaction

Let's understand the user interaction before diving into the core components of Kibana. A typical user interaction flow is as depicted in the following diagram:

The following points will give you a clear idea of user interaction flow in Kibana:

  • Prior to using Kibana for data analysis, the user would have already loaded the data in Elasticsearch.
  • In order to analyze the data using Kibana, the user has to first make Kibana aware of the data stored in ES indexes. So the user would need to configure the indexes on which he wants to perform analysis.
  • Once configured, the user has to find out the data structure, such as the fields present in the document and the type of fields present in the document, and explore the data. This is done so that he can decide how he can visualize this, and what type of questions he wants to pose and find answers for in terms of the data...
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