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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook
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The core of Kibana are the dashboards--an aggregation of widgets that are results of queries and aggregations.
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.
You also need a functional Kibana installation as described in the Installing Kibana and X-Pack recipe.
For managing Kibana dashboards, we will perform the following steps:
We access the Discovery section of Kibana as shown in the following screenshot:
After a few seconds, the default search frontend should appear. The default query is *
, which is executed against the _all
field.
The Kibana interface is divided into sections: Discovery, Visualize, Dashboards, Dev Tools, and Management are available in the opensource version of Kibana. The X-Pack adds Graph and Monitoring ones.
The dashboard top menu allows us to do as follows:
Create a new dashboard starting...
Change the font size
Change margin width
Change background colour