Kibana interface
A Kibana interface consists of four main tabs:
- Discover: The Discover page enables free text searches, field-based searches, range-based searches, and so on.
- Visualize: The Visualize page enables building many visualizations, such as pie charts, bar charts, line charts, and so on, which can be saved and used in dashboards later.
- Dashboard: The Dashboard represents collections of multiple visualizations and searches, which can be used to easily apply filters based on click interaction, and draw conclusions based on multiple data aggregations.
- Settings: Settings enables the configuration of index patterns, scripted fields, the data types of fields, and so on.
Let's take a look at the Discover page in more detail.
Discover page
The Discover page is used to perform interactive searches on your indexed data. It allows you to perform ad hoc searches based on fields, the filtering of data, and allows you to view indexed documents as well.
A typical Kibana home page, which defaults...