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Mastering Kibana 6.x
Mastering Kibana 6.x

Mastering Kibana 6.x: Visualize your Elastic Stack data with histograms, maps, charts, and graphs

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Mastering Kibana 6.x

Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard

In this chapter, you will learn how to set up and customize Kibana visualizations by adding titles, resizing panels, changing colors and opacity, modifying the legends, and so on. This will also explain how we can embed the dashboard on our existing application. By tweaking these features, we can create more meaningful and impactful dashboards.

Before creating the visualizations, we need to push data into the Elasticsearch index, and using that index, we can create visualizations and dashboards.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up the stage: Here, we will cover all the configurations required to get the required data in place in order to use it for dashboard creation
  • Creating dashboard: Here, we will cover the practical aspect of dashboard creation by creating different types of visualizations in Kibana...

Setting up the stage

In the previous chapter, we discussed the basics of Elastic Stack and its installation, but after the installation, we need to understand the process of creating different visualizations in Kibana. So, I am going to create our first demonstration for working with Kibana in which I will cover the complete flow through which you will be able to understand how Kibana can read log data and create beautiful dashboards from bulky, unorganized log files. For this demonstration, I am going to use Apache log data, and to get that data, we will follow these steps:

  1. Configure Logstash to fetch data from the Apache log file
  2. Output the log data into Elasticsearch
  3. Configure Kibana to read the Elasticsearch index
  4. Create demo visualizations with Apache log data

Configuring...

Creating the dashboard

Now that we have created the visualizations, we can create the dashboard using these visualizations. To create the dashboard, we need to click on the Dashboard link from the left menu, which will open the following screen:

This will show an empty screen with a Create a dashboard button, since we haven't created any dashboards yet. When we create dashboards, this screen will list the name and links of those dashboard along with a create dashboard link. Now we need to click on the Create a dashboard button, which will open the following screen:

This screen shows an empty page with a message that states, This dashboard is empty. Let's fill it up! To fill the visualizations, we need to click on the Add link from the top-right corner of the page. This will open the following screen:

This screen shows the list of visualizations...

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to import Apache logs and store them in Elasticsearch by creating and executing Logstash configuration files. After moving the Apache logs into the Elasticsearch index, we verified this by listing the index using a web browser. Then, we configured Kibana to import Elasticsearch indexes and verified the same using the Discover tab of Kibana.

Once our log data was in place, we created a visualization using the data metrics option. Then, we created a dashboard using the visualization. After creating the dashboard, you learned to customize it using drag and drop, resizing, deleting, color options, title edit, and so on. This has given us an overall picture on how to use Kibana dashboards, which is quite superficial. You will learn more about the dashboards in the upcoming chapters.

In the next chapter, we will cover the Discover option...

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Key benefits

  • Explore visualizations and perform histograms, stats, and map analytics
  • Unleash X-Pack and Timelion, and learn alerting, monitoring, and reporting features
  • Manage dashboards with Beats and create machine learning jobs for faster analytics

Description

Kibana is one of the popular tools among data enthusiasts for slicing and dicing large datasets and uncovering Business Intelligence (BI) with the help of its rich and powerful visualizations. To begin with, Mastering Kibana 6.x quickly introduces you to the features of Kibana 6.x, before teaching you how to create smart dashboards in no time. You will explore metric analytics and graph exploration, followed by understanding how to quickly customize Kibana dashboards. In addition to this, you will learn advanced analytics such as maps, hits, and list analytics. All this will help you enhance your skills in running and comparing multiple queries and filters, influencing your data visualization skills at scale. With Kibana’s Timelion feature, you can analyze time series data with histograms and stats analytics. By the end of this book, you will have created a speedy machine learning job using X-Pack capabilities.

Who is this book for?

Mastering Kibana 6.x is for you if you are a big data engineer, DevOps engineer, or data scientist aspiring to go beyond data visualization at scale and gain maximum insights from their large datasets. Basic knowledge of Elasticstack will be an added advantage, although not mandatory.

What you will learn

  • Create unique dashboards with various intuitive data visualizations
  • Visualize Timelion expressions with added histograms and stats analytics
  • Integrate X-Pack with your Elastic Stack in simple steps
  • Extract data from Elasticsearch for advanced analysis and anomaly detection using dashboards
  • Build dashboards from web applications for application logs
  • Create monitoring and alerting dashboards using Beats

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Table of Contents

15 Chapters
Revising the ELK Stack Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploring Your Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Visualizing the Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Handling Time Series Data with Timelion Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding X-Pack Features Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Machine Learning with Kibana Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Create Super Cool Dashboard from a Web Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Different Use Cases of Kibana Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Monitoring Dashboards Using Beats Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Best Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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