Open up Kibana from the browser using the http://localhost:5601 URL. The landing page will look as follows:
Let's understand the user interaction before diving into the core components of Kibana. A typical user interaction flow is as depicted in the following diagram:
The following points will give you a clear idea of user interaction flow in Kibana:
- Prior to using Kibana for data analysis, the user would have already loaded the data in Elasticsearch.
- In order to analyze the data using Kibana, the user has to first make Kibana aware of the data stored in ES indexes. So the user would need to configure the indexes on which he wants to perform analysis.
- Once configured, the user has to find out the data structure, such as the fields present in the document and the type of fields present in the document, and explore the data. This is done so that he can decide how he can visualize this, and what type of questions he wants to pose and find answers for in terms of the data...
