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Kibana Overview
Outline
• Definition and History of ELK Stack
• Kibana Essentials Visualizer
• Discover
• Visualize
• Dashboard
• Workshop
• Dev Tools & X-Pack
• Machine Learning
• Graph
Etymology
• 黄花 – yellow flower
• Rashid Khan, the creator of Kibana, in Swahili a hut.
What is behind Kibana?
Kibana overview
Heart of ELK stack: Elasticsearch
• Based on Apache Lucene
• Shay Banon, Compass to Elasticsearch, released in 2010
• In 2012 Elastic was founded in Amsterdam
• RESTful search and analytics engine
Kibana essentials
• Discover
• Visualizer
• Dashboard
Kibana overview
Discover
• Query bar – Lucene query syntax
• Filter - Elasticsearch Query DSL
Visualize
Kibana overview
Kibana overview
Let’s try it out!
• Example of Visualize & Dashboard
• Little exercise.
Dev Tools
• Console
• Search Profiler
X-Pack beyond Essentials
• Security
• Monitoring
• Alerting and Notification
• Reporting
• Graph
• Machine Learning
Kibana overview
Kibana overview
Thank you!
• Don’t spend time reading books about Kibana
• Use official documentation in elastic.co
• Be careful with data!

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Editor's Notes

  1. Scalable, High-Performance Indexing over 150GB/hour on modern hardware small RAM requirements -- only 1MB heap incremental indexing as fast as batch indexing index size roughly 20-30% the size of text indexed Powerful, Accurate and Efficient Search Algorithms ranked searching -- best results returned first many powerful query types: phrase queries, wildcard queries, proximity queries, range queries and more fielded searching (e.g. title, author, contents) sorting by any field multiple-index searching with merged results allows simultaneous update and searching flexible faceting, highlighting, joins and result grouping fast, memory-efficient and typo-tolerant suggesters pluggable ranking models, including the Vector Space Model and Okapi BM25 configurable storage engine (codecs) Cross-Platform Solution Available as Open Source software under the Apache License which lets you use Lucene in both commercial and Open Source programs 100%-pure Java