Exploring your data in Discover

In this recipe, we’ll see how you can take advantage of one of the most powerful and popular applications in Kibana: Discover. After indexing some data in Elasticsearch, Discover should be your starting point to gain insights into the structure of the data, fields, value distribution, and other critical aspects. It’s also an extremely efficient tool for confirming that data is indexing correctly into your Elasticsearch cluster.

With the launch of Elastic Stack version 8, Discover has introduced some exciting new features. In this recipe, we will concentrate on the following:

• Field statistics and document explorer
• Adding columns to the document table with drag and drop
• Breaking down the histogram by value
• Extracting more insights from the field lists

Getting ready

To follow along in this recipe, you’ll need an up-and-running Elastic deployment with Elasticsearch and Kibana. To spin up a cluster on...