Exploring sample dashboards

Delving into the world of Kibana dashboards is like embarking on a treasure hunt for insights. Luckily, you don’t have to start with an empty map! Check out the Sample Dashboards section within Kibana – it’s a goldmine of pre-built visualizations waiting to be explored.

Imagine peeking at a dashboard titled [Logs] Web Traffic, as shown in Figure 8.2. A time series graph might showcase daily visitor trends, while a pie chart paints a picture of the top referring sources. You can click on segments to drill down further, uncovering specific campaigns or landing pages driving traffic. Kibana, as we have seen, is not just a tool for centralizing data and metrics; it also offers very interesting ways to explore and analyze that data. With its intuitive interface and powerful features, Kibana allows technical leads to quickly pinpoint the cause of spike alerts being triggered within their organization. They can easily drill down into data...