Visualizing data with Kibana

Kibana allows you to create reusable data representations called visualizations. These are representations of aggregations and can be used to power up the dashboard using custom graphs. In general, you can consider visualization as a building block for your dashboard.

Getting ready

You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation – similar to the one that we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started. Additionally, a working Kibana instance is required, as described in the Installing Kibana recipe of this chapter.

If you have used Docker Compose, which is available in the ch01 directory...