Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide: Visualize your Elasticsearch data with ease

A quick start guide to visualize your Elasticsearch data

Key Features

• Your hands-on guide to visualizing the Elasticsearch data as well as navigating the Elastic stack
• Work with different Kibana plugins and create effective machine learning jobs using Kibana
• Build effective dashboards and reports without any hassle

Book Description

The Elastic Stack is growing rapidly and, day by day, additional tools are being added to make it more effective. This book endeavors to explain all the important aspects of Kibana, which is essential for utilizing its full potential.

This book covers the core concepts of Kibana, with chapters set out in a coherent manner so that readers can advance their learning in a step-by-step manner. The focus is on a practical approach, thereby enabling the reader to apply those examples in real time for a better understanding of the concepts and to provide them with the correct skills in relation to the tool. With its succinct explanations, it is quite easy for a reader to use this book as a reference guide for learning basic to advanced implementations of Kibana. The practical examples, such as the creation of Kibana dashboards from CSV data, application RDBMS data, system metrics data, log file data, APM agents, and search results, can provide readers with a number of different drop-off points from where they can fetch any type of data into Kibana for the purpose of analysis or dashboarding.

What you will learn

• Explore how Logstash is configured to fetch CSV data
• Understand how to create index patterns in Kibana
• Become familiar with how to apply filters on data
• Discover how to create ML jobs
• Explore how to analyze APM data from APM agents
• Get to grips with how to save, share, inspect, and edit visualizations
• Understand how to find an anomaly in data

Who this book is for

Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide is for developers new to Kibana who want to learn the fundamentals of using the tool for visualization, as well as existing Elastic developers.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Kibana
2. Getting Data into Kibana
3. Exploring Data
4. Visualizing Data
5. X-Pack with Machine Learning
6. Monitoring Applications with APM
7. Kibana Advanced Tools