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Mastering Kibana 6.x

You're reading from   Mastering Kibana 6.x Visualize your Elastic Stack data with histograms, maps, charts, and graphs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831031
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anurag Srivastava Anurag Srivastava
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Preface 1. Revising the ELK Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up and Customizing the Kibana Dashboard 3. Exploring Your Data 4. Visualizing the Data 5. Dashboarding to Showcase Key Performance Indicators 6. Handling Time Series Data with Timelion 7. Interact with Your Data Using Dev Tools 8. Tweaking Your Configuration with Kibana Management 9. Understanding X-Pack Features 10. Machine Learning with Kibana 11. Create Super Cool Dashboard from a Web Application 12. Different Use Cases of Kibana 13. Creating Monitoring Dashboards Using Beats 14. Best Practices 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating visualizations


For creating a visualization, we need to click on the Visualize link on the left-hand menu, which will open a page. We will display a list of visualizations, if we have already created any; otherwise, there will be a page with a Create a visualization button in the middle. So, for creating a new visualization, we need to click on this button:

Now, we need to choose the visualization type from the Select visualization type screen. There are multiple types of visualizations, such as the ones shown in the following screenshot:

Now, we need to select the visualization type first by clicking on the visualization type box. But before selecting the right visualization type, we need to understand the data. By seeing the data, we can get the best way to depict it through visualization. For example, if we have a single dimensional data over time, we can use a histogram, but if we have related data, such as the number of votes acquired by each party in an election, we can use...

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