Anomaly detection in the Logs app
The Logs app inside of the Observability section of Kibana offers a similar view of your data as the Discover app. However, the users who appreciate more of a live tail view of their logs, regardless of the index the data is stored, will love the Logs app:
Figure 8.16 – The Logs app, part of the Observability section of Kibana
Notice that there is both an Anomalies tab and a Categories tab. Let's first discuss the Categories section.
Log categories
Elastic ML's categorization capabilities, first shown back in Chapter 3, Anomaly Detection, are applied in a generic way to any index of unstructured log data. Within the Logs app, however, categorization is employed with some more strict constraints on the data. In short, the data is expected to be in Elastic Common Schema (ECS) with certain fields defined (especially a field called event.dataset).
Note
The logs dataset from Chapter 7, AIOps and Root...
