Kibana Essentials
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Kibana Essentials

Yuvraj Gupta

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Yuvraj Gupta

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About This Book

Use the functionalities of Kibana to discover data and build attractive visualizations and dashboards for real-world scenarios

About This Book

  • Perform real-time data analytics and visualizations, on streaming data, using Kibana
  • Build beautiful visualizations and dashboards with simplicity and ease without any type of coding involved
  • Learn all the core concepts as well as detailed information about each component used in Kibana

Who This Book Is For

Whether you are new to the world of data analytics and data visualization or an expert, this book will provide you with the skills required to use Kibana with ease and simplicity for real-time data visualization of streaming data.

This book is intended for those professionals who are interested in learning about Kibana, its installations, and how to use it. As Kibana provides a user-friendly web page, no prior experience is required.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand the basic concepts of elasticsearch used in Kibana along with step by step guide to install Kibana in Windows and Ubuntu
  • Explore the functionality of all the components used in Kibana in detail, such as the Discover, Visualize, Dashboard, and Settings pages
  • Analyze data using the powerful search capabilities of elasticsearch
  • Understand the different types of aggregations used in Kibana for visualization
  • Create and build different types of amazing visualizations and dashboards easily
  • Create, save, share, embed, and customize the visualizations added to the dashboard
  • Customize and tweak the advanced settings of Kibana to ensure ease of use

In Detail

With the increasing interest in data analytics and visualization of large data around the globe, Kibana offers the best features to analyze data and create attractive visualizations and dashboards through simple-to-use web pages. The variety of visualizations provided, combined with the powerful underlying elasticsearch capabilities will help professionals improve their skills with this technology.

This book will help you quickly familiarize yourself to Kibana and will also help you to understand the core concepts of this technology to build visualizations easily.

Starting with setting up of Kibana and elasticsearch in Windows and Ubuntu, you will then use the Discover page to analyse your data intelligently. Next, you will learn to use the Visualization page to create beautiful visualizations without the need for any coding. Then, you will learn how to use the Dashboard page to create a dashboard and instantly share and embed the dashboards. You will see how to tweak the basic and advanced settings provided in Kibana to manage searches, visualizations, and dashboards. Finally, you will use Kibana to build visualizations and dashboards for real-world scenarios.

You will quickly master the functionalities and components used in Kibana to create amazing visualizations based on real-world scenarios. With ample screenshots to guide you through every step, this book will assist you in creating beautiful visualizations with ease.

Style and approach

This book is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to help you understand Kibana. It's explained in an easy-to-follow style along with supporting images. Every chapter is explained sequentially, covering the basics of each component of Kibana and providing detailed explanations of all the functionalities of Kibana that appeal.

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Year
2015
ISBN
9781784394936
Edition
1

Kibana Essentials


Table of Contents

Kibana Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. An Introduction to Kibana
Understanding Elasticsearch
The basic concepts of Elasticsearch
Prerequisites for installing Kibana 4.1.1
Installation of Java
Installation of Java on Ubuntu 14.04
Installation of Java on Windows
Installation of Elasticsearch
Installation of Elasticsearch on Ubuntu 14.04
Installation of Elasticsearch on Windows
Installation of GIT
Installation of Kibana
Installation of Kibana on Ubuntu 14.04
Installation of Kibana on Windows
Additional information
Changing the Elasticsearch configuration
Changing the Kibana configuration
Importing a JSON file into Elasticsearch
Installation of npm
Installation of npm on Ubuntu 14.04
Installation of npm on Windows
Installing elasticdump
Installing elasticdump on Ubuntu 14.04
Installing elasticdump on Windows
Summary
2. Exploring the Discover Page
Understanding the time filter
Setting the time filter
The Auto-refresh page
Understanding the toolbar
Using the search bar
New Search
Save Search
Load Saved Search
Understanding the Fields list
View field data information
Filtering by field
Functionalities of filters
The Enable filter
The Disable filter
The Pin filter
The Unpin filter
The Invert filter
The Toggle filter
The Remove filter
Understanding document data
Add a field to document data
Remove a field from document data
View data
Sorting documents
Moving fields in document data
Summary
3. Exploring the Visualize Page
Understanding aggregations
Bucket aggregations
Date histogram
Histogram
Range
Date range
IPv4 range
Terms
Filters
Significant terms
GeoHash
Metric aggregations
Count
Sum
Average
Min
Max
Unique count
Percentile
Percentile ranks
Steps for designing visualization
Step 1 – selecting a visualization type
Step 2 – selecting search data source
Step 3 – the visualization canvas
Toolbar
New Visualization
Save Visualization
Load Saved Visualization
Share Visualization
Refresh
Aggregation designer
Preview canvas
An explanation of visualization types
Area Chart
Overlap
Percentage
Wiggle
Silhouette
Data Table
Line Chart
Log
Square root
Markdown widget
Metric
Pie Chart
Tile Map
Shaded Circle Markers
Shaded GeoHash Grid
Heatmap
Desaturate map tiles
Vertical Bar Chart
Percentage
Grouped
Summary
4. Exploring the Dashboard Page
Understanding the toolbar
The New Dashboard option
Adding visualizations
Using the search bar
The Save Dashboard option
The Load Saved Dashboard option
Sharing the saved dashboard
Understanding the dashboard canvas
Moving visualizations
Resizing visualizations
Editing visualizations
Removing visualizations
Embedding a dashboard in a web page
Understanding the debug panel
Table
Request
Response
Statistics
Summary
5. Exploring the Settings Page
Indices
Configuring an index pattern
Setting the default index pattern
Reloading the index fields list
Removing an index pattern
Managing the field properties
The field type format
Advanced
Objects
Managing saved searches, visualizations, and dashboards
Viewing a saved object
Editing a saved object
Deleting a saved object
Exporting saved objects
Importing saved objects
About
Summary
6. Real-Time Twitter Data Analysis
The installation of Logstash
The installation of Logstash on Ubuntu 14.04
The installation of Logstash on Windows
The workflow for real-time Twitter data analysis
Creating a Twitter developer account
Creating a Logstash configuration file
Creating visualizations for scenarios
Number of tweets over a period of time
Number of tweets ...

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