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Mastering Kibana 6.x

You're reading from   Mastering Kibana 6.x Visualize your Elastic Stack data with histograms, maps, charts, and graphs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831031
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anurag Srivastava Anurag Srivastava
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Preface 1. Revising the ELK Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard 3. Exploring Your Data 4. Visualizing the Data 5. Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators 6. Handling Time Series Data with Timelion 7. Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools 8. Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management 9. Understanding X-Pack Features 10. Machine Learning with Kibana 11. Create Super Cool Dashboard from a Web Application 12. Different Use Cases of Kibana 13. Creating Monitoring Dashboards Using Beats 14. Best Practices 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools

Kibana depends on Elasticsearch in order to read the indices and generate visualizations and dashboards. Very often, we need to interact with the Elasticsearch cluster to get some details, fetch data, and delete records or indices for which we have to do the curl request either from the Elasticsearch client or console. Kibana provides a console from where we can directly interact with Elasticsearch APIs. It not only provides the editor but also many other features that are quite useful, as follows:

  • Syntax completion
  • Formatting of expressions
  • Copying the curl command to execute from Terminal

It also provides an output window in which we can see the Elasticsearch response. Therefore, on a single window, we have an input window for the Elasticsearch expression and an output window to get the results of the expression that we...

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