Mastering Kibana 6.x

Visualize your Elastic Stack data with histograms, maps, charts, and graphs

Anurag Srivastava 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2018년 07월 31일 출간

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▶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.

▶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

▶Key Features
？ Explore visualizations and perform histograms, stats, and map analytics
？ Unleash X-Pack and Timelion, and learn alerting, monitoring, and reporting features
？ Manage dashboards with Beats and create machine learning jobs for faster analytics

▶Who This Book Is For
Mastering Kibana 6.x is for you if you are a big data engineer, DevOps engineer, or data scientist aspiring to go beyond data visualization at scale and gain maximum insights from their large datasets. Basic knowledge of Elasticstack will be an added advantage, although not mandatory.

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▶TABLE of 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

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▶ Preface
Kibana is a powerful visualization tool which can be use to solve different types of problems. The basic use of Kibana is log management and it is mostly used for the log management only because it is quite difficult to handle the logs without a proper tool which can help us to explore, filter, search and visualize the logs. We can also use Kibana in many other areas like for security monitoring and alerting in which we use the tool to figure out any suspicious activity or attack. Machine learning is another important feature which was introduced in Kibana 5.4 and provides us the luxury to apply the machine learning algorithm directly on the index pattern data without any other software dependency.

The objective of this book is to first introduce the reader with basics of Kibana like installation, functioning and log management etc and then to explain some complex topics like Timelion, Machine Learning etc and at last to provide some practical explanation to setup the dashboard like creating dashboard using Beats and then through RDBMS data. So we can say that this book is a complete package and covers almost every aspect of Kibana.

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저자(글) Anurag Srivastava