Creating visualizations with Kibana Lens

Kibana Lens offers a user-friendly and intuitive approach for anyone to visualize their data within Kibana. With its seamless drag-and-drop interface, one-click data exploration, and capability to provide visualization recommendations, Lens is the fastest way to uncover valuable insights within your Elasticsearch data. In this recipe, you’ll discover the power and flexibility of data visualization with Kibana Lens, and we will also explore some useful new features that have been introduced in Elastic 8.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have completed the previous recipes of this chapter, as the same dataset on Rennes traffic will be used in this recipe.

How to do it...

Let’s get started with visualizing your data using Kibana Lens.

By the end of this recipe, you will have created the following visualizations:

• Number of unique locations (metric chart)
• Overall average speed gauge (gauge visualization)
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