Kibana
Kibana is an open-source web interface for searching, analyzing, visualizing, monitoring, and dashboarding data stored in Elasticsearch.
Elasticsearch in Action, Second Edition
Kibana is a web interface for querying Elasticsearch data and creating visualizations, dashboards, and aggregations.
- How it is used
- Provides a visual console for executing Elasticsearch requests, inspecting data, and building dashboards and visualizations.
- How deep it goes
- Demonstrates Dev Tools navigation, two-pane request execution, and JSON responses; defers request and response details.
- Examples
- Uses Dev Tools to submit an indexing request and inspect its created-document response, status, and metadata.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure it to send Elasticsearch requests from Dev Tools and read returned JSON responses.
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Kafka for Architects
Kibana is a visualization and user-interface tool for searching, exploring, and building dashboards over Elasticsearch data.
- How it is used
- Provides interactive oversight of distributed-service logs through search, exploration, and real-time dashboards.
- How deep it goes
- Defines Kibana’s interface role and its pipeline position but stops short of implementation details.
- Examples
- Uses distributed-service logs, SQL-like queries, real-time dashboards, and an application-to-Kafka-to-Elasticsearch flow.
- What you can do after
- Operate Kibana to query indexed logs and build dashboards that update as log data changes.
Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition
Kibana is a web interface for searching, exploring, visualizing, and dashboarding data stored in Elasticsearch.
- How it is used
- Provides a searchable interface for inspecting centralized container logs stored in Elasticsearch.
- How deep it goes
- Walks through data-view creation and log discovery, but does not detail Kibana internals or dashboard construction.
- Examples
- Uses timecheck and image-gallery container logs, the Discover view, and a fluentd* data view.
- What you can do after
- Operate Kibana to configure a data view and search or filter centralized container logs.
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Related concepts
- Elasticsearchuses · Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that indexes data for searching, retrieval, and analysis.
- ELK stackpart of · The ELK stack is a collection of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana components for ingesting, processing, searching, analyzing, and visualizing data.
- Dev Toolsused by · Dev Tools is Kibana's interface for entering and executing Elasticsearch requests and inspecting their results.
- OpenSearch Dashboardsalternative to · OpenSearch Dashboards is an open-source web interface for searching, analyzing, and visualizing data stored in OpenSearch.
- natural language interfacekind of · A natural language interface enables interaction with a system through human-language text or speech.
- dashboardkind of · A dashboard is a visual interface that consolidates selected data, metrics, or status information for monitoring, analysis, or decision-making.
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