Mastering Kibana 6.x: Visualize your Elastic Stack data with histograms,maps,charts,and graphs
by: Anurag Srivastava
ISBN-10: 1788831039
ISBN-13: 9781788831031
Released: 2018-07-31
Pages: 376
Book Description
Kibana is one of the popular tools among data enthusiasts for slicing and dicing large datasets and uncovering Business Intelligence (BI) with the help of its rich and powerful visualizations.
To begin with,Mastering Kibana 6.x quickly introduces you to the features of Kibana 6.x,before teaching you how to create smart dashboards in no time. You will explore metric analytics and graph exploration,followed by understanding how to quickly customize Kibana dashboards. In addition to this,you will learn advanced analytics such as maps,hits,and list analytics. All this will help you enhance your skills in running and comparing multiple queries and filters,influencing your data visualization skills at scale.
With Kibana’s Timelion feature,you can analyze time series data with histograms and stats analytics. By the end of this book,you will have created a speedy machine learning job using X-Pack capabilities.
Contents
1: REVISING THE ELK STACK
2: SETTING UP AND CUSTOMIZING THE KIBANA DASHBOARD
3: EXPLORING YOUR DATA
4: VISUALIZING THE DATA
5: DASHBOARDING TO SHOWCASE KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
6: HANDLING TIME SERIES DATA WITH TIMELION
7: INTERACT WITH YOUR DATA USING DEV TOOLS
8: TWEAKING YOUR CONFIGURATION WITH KIBANA MANAGEMENT
9: UNDERSTANDING X-PACK FEATURES
10: MACHINE LEARNING WITH KIBANA
11: CREATE SUPER COOL DASHBOARD FROM A WEB APPLICATION
12: DIFFERENT USE CASES OF KIBANA
13: CREATING MONITORING DASHBOARDS USING BEATS
14: BEST PRACTICES
What You Will Learn
Create unique dashboards with various intuitive data visualizations
Visualize Timelion expressions with added histograms and stats analytics
Integrate X-Pack with your Elastic Stack in simple steps
Extract data from Elasticsearch for advanced analysis and anomaly detection using dashboards
Build dashboards from web applications for application logs
Create monitoring and alerting dashboards using Beats
Authors
Anurag Srivastava
Anurag Srivastava is a senior technical lead since 11 years in a multinational software company in web-based application development. He has led and handled teams and clients since 7 years of his professional career. Proficient in designing and deployment of scalable applications,he has multiple certifications in ML and data science using Python. He is well experienced with the Elastic stack (Elasticsearch,Logstash,and Kibana) for creating dashboards using system metrics data,log data,application data,or relational databases.