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Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard

In this chapter, you will learn how to set up and customize Kibana visualizations by adding titles, resizing panels, changing colors and opacity, modifying the legends, and so on. This will also explain how we can embed the dashboard on our existing application. By tweaking these features, we can create more meaningful and impactful dashboards.

Before creating the visualizations, we need to push data into the Elasticsearch index, and using that index, we can create visualizations and dashboards.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Setting up the stage: Here, we will cover all the configurations required to get the required data in place in order to use it for dashboard creation
Creating dashboard: Here, we will cover the practical aspect of dashboard creation by creating different types of visualizations in Kibana...

Key benefits

Explore visualizations and perform histograms, stats, and map analytics

Unleash X-Pack and Timelion, and learn alerting, monitoring, and reporting features

Manage dashboards with Beats and create machine learning jobs for faster analytics

Description

Kibana is one of the popular tools among data enthusiasts for slicing and dicing large datasets and uncovering Business Intelligence (BI) with the help of its rich and powerful visualizations. To begin with, Mastering Kibana 6.x quickly introduces you to the features of Kibana 6.x, before teaching you how to create smart dashboards in no time. You will explore metric analytics and graph exploration, followed by understanding how to quickly customize Kibana dashboards. In addition to this, you will learn advanced analytics such as maps, hits, and list analytics. All this will help you enhance your skills in running and comparing multiple queries and filters, influencing your data visualization skills at scale. With Kibana’s Timelion feature, you can analyze time series data with histograms and stats analytics. By the end of this book, you will have created a speedy machine learning job using X-Pack capabilities.

What you will learn

Create unique dashboards with various intuitive data visualizations

Visualize Timelion expressions with added histograms and stats analytics

Integrate X-Pack with your Elastic Stack in simple steps

Extract data from Elasticsearch for advanced analysis and anomaly detection using dashboards

Build dashboards from web applications for application logs

Create monitoring and alerting dashboards using Beats

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