Kibana interface

A Kibana interface consists of four main tabs:

  • Discover: The Discover page enables free text searches, field-based searches, range-based searches, and so on.
  • Visualize: The Visualize page enables building many visualizations, such as pie charts, bar charts, line charts, and so on, which can be saved and used in dashboards later.
  • Dashboard: The Dashboard represents collections of multiple visualizations and searches, which can be used to easily apply filters based on click interaction, and draw conclusions based on multiple data aggregations.
  • Settings: Settings enables the configuration of index patterns, scripted fields, the data types of fields, and so on.

Let's take a look at the Discover page in more detail.

Discover page

The Discover ...

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