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Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis

Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis

By : Shah
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Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis

Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis

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By: Shah

Overview of this book

Unleash the full potential of Kibana—an indispensable tool for data analysts to seamlessly explore vast datasets, uncover key insights, identify trends and anomalies, and share results. This book guides you through its user-friendly interface, interactive visualizations, and robust features, including real-time data monitoring and advanced analytics, showing you how Kibana revolutionizes your approach to navigating and analyzing complex datasets. Starting with the foundational steps of installing, configuring, and running Kibana, this book progresses systematically to explain the search and data visualization capabilities for data stored in the Elasticsearch cluster. You’ll then delve into the practical details of creating data views and optimizing spaces to better organize the analysis environment. As you advance, you'll get to grips with using the discover interface and learn how to build different types of extensive visualizations using Lens. By the end of this book, you’ll have a complete understanding of how Kibana works, helping you leverage its capabilities to build an analytics and visualization solution from scratch for your data-driven use case.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part 1: Exploring Kibana
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Part 2: Visualizations in Kibana
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Part 3: Analytics on a Dashboard
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Part 4: Querying on Kibana and Advanced Concepts

Understanding data integrations

When it comes to adding data to Elasticsearch, there are multiple ways to do it.

The easiest and simplest method would be to add the sample data available on Kibana’s home page by clicking on Try sample data as shown in the following figure:

Figure 1.1 – Image shows the page of Kibana where you have options to add sample data

Figure 1.1 – Image shows the page of Kibana where you have options to add sample data

This shows a Sample data screen where a dropdown can be found through an Other datasets link. There are currently three options to choose from:

Figure 1.2 – The page of Kibana where you have options to add sample data

Figure 1.2 – The page of Kibana where you have options to add sample data

Next, an easy option to explore data would be to add the data through the Upload file option, where a log file or delimited CSV, TSV, or JSON file up to the size of 100 MB can be uploaded. This value can be configured up to 1 GB in the Advanced settings section of Kibana:

Figure 1.3 – Using the load feature to add the sample data

Figure 1.3 – Using the load...

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