Technical requirements

This chapter walks you through the various features of Kibana when it comes to building and consuming use cases from your data. You will need access to an instance of Kibana connected to an Elasticsearch deployment to follow along. If you don't already have a deployment configured, follow the instructions provided in Chapter 2, Installing and Running the Elastic Stack.

The code for this chapter can be found in the GitHub repository for the book:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Getting-Started-with-Elastic-Stack-8.0/tree/main/Chapter8

Navigate to Chapter8/trips-dataset in the code repository for this book and follow the instructions to load a dataset containing flight travel logs for a single passenger over a period of time:

1. The following files are provided in the folder:
   1. flights-template.json contains an Elasticsearch index template for the given dataset, detailing the schema/mappings for the fields in the dataset.
   2. load.sh is a helper script...