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.
Create visualizations using the Visualize interface in Kibana
Build shareable search dashboards to drill down and perform advanced analysis and reporting
Search data to make correlations and identify and explain trends
Embed dashboards, share links, and export PNG, PDF, or CSV files and send as an attachment
Configure and tweak advanced settings to best manage saved objects in Kibana
Implement several types of aggregations working behind the scenes of extensive visualizations