Visualizing data with Kibana
Kibana allows you to create reusable data representations called visualizations. These are representations of aggregations and can be used to power up the dashboard using custom graphs. In general, you can consider visualization as a building block for your dashboard.
Getting ready
You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, similar to the one that we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started. Additionally, a working Kibana instance is required, as described in the Installing Kibana recipe of this chapter.
If you have used Docker Compose, which is available in the ch01 directory, then everything should be correctly installed.
How to do it...
To use Kibana to create custom widgets, we will perform the following steps:
- Access the Analytics | Visualize Library section of Kibana, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 11.10 – Visualize...
