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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.
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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

Exploring data views

Data views are structures that help us navigate Elasticsearch’s dataset in Kibana. Moreover, if you need to access data or start exploring anything, Kibana needs a data view. For example, a data view can point to one or more indices that have come up until now.

If you’ve added integration for new data, uploaded a file, or added sample data, data views will be created automatically by Kibana. However, if you are ingesting your own data, then we can perform the following steps to create a data view:

  1. Go to the Kibana main menu and click on Stack Management | Data views | Data Views under Kibana. You should then see a screen like this:

      Figure 2.1 – The first step of creating a data view on Kibana

Figure 2.1 – The first step of creating a data view on Kibana

  1. Once you click on Create Data View, it opens up a window to name the data view and add the @timestamp field of your dataset, which has date/timestamp information. The next screenshot shows this...

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