Managing Kibana dashboards

The core of Kibana are the dashboards--an aggregation of widgets that are results of queries and aggregations.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

You also need a functional Kibana installation as described in the Installing Kibana and X-Pack recipe.

How to do it...

For managing Kibana dashboards, we will perform the following steps:

1. We access the Discovery section of Kibana as shown in the following screenshot:

   

2. After a few seconds, the default search frontend should appear. The default query is *, which is executed against the _all field.

How it works...

The Kibana interface is divided into sections: Discovery, Visualize, Dashboards, Dev Tools, and Management are available in the opensource version of Kibana. The X-Pack adds Graph and Monitoring ones.

The dashboard top menu allows us to do as follows:

• Create a new dashboard starting...