Exploring the visualize interface

Visualization is the heart of Kibana and it is one of the sole reasons behind the creation of Kibana to provide users the capability to visualize large volumes of data. As the adoption of Elasticsearch and Logstash was increasing day by day, the ability to directly visualize data stored in Elasticsearch was missing and users were unable to make sense of the data. Then came the savior, Kibana, which solved the problem and provided a simple yet intuitive interface. It solved the challenge of visualizing huge volumes of data in near real time. It is the core component that makes Kibana a functionally rich open source software.

The Visualize page helps to visualize all the data that has been stored in Elasticsearch. ...

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