For this book, we will explore how to use Kibana, taking advantage of it as an add-on to Minikube. After you have enabled it, and when the pods are fully available and reporting as Ready, you can access Kibana with this command:
minikube service kibana-logging -n kube-system
This will bring up a web page that is backed by the kibana-logging service. When it is first accessed, the web page will ask you to specify a default index, which is used by Elasticsearch to build its search indices:
Click on Create, taking the defaults that are provided. The default index pattern of logstash-* doesn't mean it has to come from ...