When you signed up for Elastic Cloud, you were also given a URL to Kibana. Kibana is a powerful graphical frontend to Elasticsearch:
- Open the URL in your browser. You'll see see a login page:
The Kibana login page
- Enter your username and password and you'll be taken to the main dashboard:
Creating an index pattern
We're being asked to create an index pattern for the one index that was created by our app: sw. In the index pattern textbox, enter sw* and then press Next step.
- We'll be asked to select a time filter field ...
