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Anurag Srivastava
Anurag Srivastava
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Anurag Srivastava

Anurag Srivastava is a senior technical lead in a multinational software company. He has more than 12 years' experience in web-based application development. He is proficient in designing architecture for scalable and highly available applications. He has handled development teams and multiple clients from all over the globe over the past 10 years of his professional career. He has significant experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for creating dashboards using system metrics data, log data, application data, and relational databases. He has authored three other booksMastering Kibana 6.x, and Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide, and Learning Kibana 7 - Second Edition, all published by Packt.
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Discover your data

Once you have created the index pattern in Kibana, your Elasticsearch data can be accessed from Kibana directly. So once the data is available, we can explore it using the different options of Kibana Discover. The following screen appears when we first click on Discover from the left menu in Kibana:

In the preceding screenshot, you can see the histogram, which shows the date against the timestamp when the records get added. It shows @timestamp per day on the x axis and Count on the y axis. Under the histogram, we have the actual data, which is shown with Time and the _source field. There are different things we can do here to see the specific fields of records, records with a specific time range, expanded with of one document to show field, and values in a tabular view. Now let's see how we can use some of these features.

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Published in: Jan 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789804034

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Anurag Srivastava

Anurag Srivastava is a senior technical lead in a multinational software company. He has more than 12 years' experience in web-based application development. He is proficient in designing architecture for scalable and highly available applications. He has handled development teams and multiple clients from all over the globe over the past 10 years of his professional career. He has significant experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for creating dashboards using system metrics data, log data, application data, and relational databases. He has authored three other booksMastering Kibana 6.x, and Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide, and Learning Kibana 7 - Second Edition, all published by Packt.
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