Exploring the Management interface
Settings provide a way to customize and tweak various Kibana related properties.
This page has been categorized into multiple options to understand the various settings involved with each of the options. The options are displayed as shown in the following screenshot:
Let us have a closer look at the various settings provided by each of the options.
Index patterns
This option provides us with the ability to configure an index or indices pattern to be used with Kibana. It provides the various indices patterns that have already been configured to use with Kibana along with the ability to view the information related to various fields present in an index.
You can configure various types of index, such as:
- Index Name
- Index Patterns
Index patterns are divided into the following two search categories:
- Wildcard Searches:
logstash-*
will fetch all indices names starting withlogstash-
- Event Time Based:
[logstash-]YYYY-MM-DD
will fetch all indices following a pattern wherein...