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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

Timelion interface

On Kibana, we have a link Timelion on the left menu and by clicking on it we can open the Timelion interface:

On the Timelion screen, we can see a textbox with the .es(*) expression, which denotes that currently we are getting data from all the indices. The .es function counts the number of documents in Elasticsearch and creates the default graph showing the amount of documents created over a selected time span. It shows the default query, which fetches everything from Elasticsearch and draws it over time. In front of the expression box, we have a dropdown to set the refresh duration and below that dropdown we have an execute button, which is used to run the query written inside the expression box.

We have a visualization below the expression box, which shows the timeseries graph. Timelion provides with us hints such as, if we put a dot after...

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