Chapter 7. Kibana – Visualization and Dashboard

In the last chapter, we looked at the Discover page and how we could make some quick searches across indexed documents. In this chapter, we will look at the Visualize and Dashboard features in Kibana. We will see how we can leverage the power of Kibana, built over Elasticsearch indexes, to build various types of charts and graphs, and awesome dashboards covering various analytics, which can be easily embedded or shared with others.

Visualize page

The Visualize page helps create visualizations in the form of graphs and charts. These visualizations can be saved and viewed individually or can be used in multiple dashboards, which act as a collection of visualizations.

All visualizations in Kibana are based ...

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