As big data has been trending in the industry for a while, huge amounts of data present a bigger challenge in gaining meaningful information from raw data. In today's industry, getting insights from data and making real-time decisions based on this huge data has become even more important.
Kibana provides an easy-to-use UI to perform real-time data analysis and visualizations on streaming data. It enables you to get hidden information by exploring data in different dimensions.
Making beautiful visualizations with ease without requiring any code and empowering people without technical knowledge to gather insights have never been easier.
Chapter 1, An Introduction to Kibana, takes you through the basic concepts of Elasticsearch, followed by the installation of Kibana and its prerequisite software.
Chapter 2, Exploring the Discover Page, covers the functionality of various components, along with detailed explanations of the usage of each component and its options.
Chapter 3, Exploring the Visualize Page, teaches you to create different types of visualizations using aggregations to visualize data.
Chapter 4, Exploring the Dashboard Page, covers the functionality of the various components present on the Dashboard page, followed by creating and embedding dashboards.
Chapter 5, Exploring the Settings Page, demonstrates the usage and tweaking of basic and advanced settings provided in Kibana.
Chapter 6, Real-Time Twitter Data Analysis, shows you how to analyze Twitter data and create visualizations based on different scenarios. This chapter also covers the workflow for analyzing Twitter data.
Appendix, References, contains a chapterwise segregation of the links and references used in the chapters.