While Elasticsearch is the heavy lifting part of the ELK Stack, and Logstash is the parsing and processing bit, Kibana is what aggregates everything else together.
The ability to visualize the data allows users to give meaning to their data. By just looking at the raw data, it is difficult to make any sense of it. Kibana visualizes the data that is stored within Elasticsearch through graphs, maps, and other methods of shaping data.
The following is a quick glance at Kibana's interface taken from the live demo:
We can see how easy is to interpret data with multiple modules showing different metrics.
Kibana enables easy understanding of large datasets. Being a browser-based application, it can be accessed from anywhere. This also allows dashboards and reports to be easily shared with others. It can be installed alongside...
