Using Kibana Dev Tools
Kibana provides a very useful section for developers: Dev Tools. This section contains four tools:
- Console: The place where the developer tests and executes commands.
- Search Profiler: A tool that is used to profile queries.
- Grok Debugger: This is useful for debugging Grok regular expressions.
- Painless Lab (beta): This enables you to test and debug Painless scripts.
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...
To use Console, we will perform the following steps:
- Access the Dev Tools section of Kibana, as shown in the...
