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Published inDec 2017
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781787281868
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Pranav Shukla
Pranav Shukla
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Pranav Shukla

Pranav Shukla is the founder and CEO of Valens DataLabs, a technologist, husband, and father of two. He is a big data architect and software craftsman who uses JVM-based languages. Pranav has diverse experience of over 14 years in architecting enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. His core expertise lies in building JVM-based, scalable, reactive, and data-driven applications using Java/Scala, the Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases. He is a big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning enthusiast.
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Sharath Kumar M N
Sharath Kumar M N
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Sharath Kumar M N

Sharath Kumar M N did his master's in computer science at the University of Texas, Dallas, USA. He is currently working as a senior principal architect at Broadcom. Prior to this, he was working as an Elasticsearch solutions architect at Oracle. He has given several tech talks at conferences such as Oracle Code events. Sharath is a certified trainer Elastic Certified Instructor one of the few technology experts in the world who has been certified by Elastic Inc. to deliver their official from the creators of Elastic training. He is also a data science and machine learning enthusiast. In his free time, he likes playing with his lovely niece, Monisha; nephew, Chirayu; and his pet, Milo.
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Using plugins


Plugins are a way to enhance the functionality of Kibana. All the plugins that are installed will be placed under the $KIBANA_HOME/plugins folder. Elastic, the company behind Kibana, provides many plugins that can be installed, and there are quite a number of public plugins that are not maintained by Elastic which can be installed, too.

Installing plugins

Navigate to KIBANA_HOME and execute the install command, as shown in the following code, to install any plugins. During installation, either the name of the plugin can be given (if it's hosted by Elastic itself), or the URL of the location where the plugin is hosted can be given:

$ KIBANA_HOME>bin/kibana-plugin install <package name or URL>

For example, to install x-pack, a plugin developed and maintained by Elastic, execute the following command:

$ KIBANA_HOME>bin/kibana-plugin install x-pack

To install a public plugin, for example LogTrail (https://github.com/sivasamyk/logtrail), execute the following command:

$ KIBANA_HOME...
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Pranav Shukla

Pranav Shukla is the founder and CEO of Valens DataLabs, a technologist, husband, and father of two. He is a big data architect and software craftsman who uses JVM-based languages. Pranav has diverse experience of over 14 years in architecting enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. His core expertise lies in building JVM-based, scalable, reactive, and data-driven applications using Java/Scala, the Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases. He is a big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning enthusiast.
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Sharath Kumar M N

Sharath Kumar M N did his master's in computer science at the University of Texas, Dallas, USA. He is currently working as a senior principal architect at Broadcom. Prior to this, he was working as an Elasticsearch solutions architect at Oracle. He has given several tech talks at conferences such as Oracle Code events. Sharath is a certified trainer Elastic Certified Instructor one of the few technology experts in the world who has been certified by Elastic Inc. to deliver their official from the creators of Elastic training. He is also a data science and machine learning enthusiast. In his free time, he likes playing with his lovely niece, Monisha; nephew, Chirayu; and his pet, Milo.
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