Managing Kibana Discover

One of the most popular aspects of Kibana is the Discover dashboard. This is because it allows you to dynamically navigate your data. With the evolution of Kibana, a lot of new features have been added to the Discover dashboard in order to allow you to easily filter and analyze your data.

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, then everything should be correctly installed.

How to do it...

For managing Kibana dashboards, we will perform the following steps:

1. Access the Analytics | Discover section of Kibana, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.5 – Kibana...