Mastering Kibana 6.x: Visualize your Elastic Stack data with histograms, maps, charts, and graphs

by Anurag Srivastava

Get to grips with Kibana and its advanced functions to create interactive visualizations and dashboards Kibana is one of the popular tools among data enthusiasts for slicing and dicing large datasets and uncovering Business Intelligence (BI) with the help of its rich and powerful visualizations. To begin with, Mastering Kibana 6.x quickly introduces you to the features of Kibana 6.x, before teaching you how to create smart dashboards in no time. You will explore metric analytics and graph exploration, followed by understanding how to quickly customize Kibana dashboards. In addition to this, you will learn advanced analytics such as maps, hits, and list analytics. All this will help you enhance your skills in running and comparing multiple queries and filters, influencing your data visualization skills at scale. With Kibana’s Timelion feature, you can analyze time series data with histograms and stats analytics. By the end of this book, you will have created a speedy machine learning job using X-Pack capabilities. Mastering Kibana 6.x is for you if you are a big data engineer, DevOps engineer, or data scientist aspiring to go beyond data visualization at scale and gain maximum insights from their large datasets. Basic knowledge of Elasticstack will be an added advantage, although not mandatory.

376 pages, Paperback

Published July 31, 2018

About the author

I am a professional with over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. I have worked extensively on both the development and technical management sides of projects for various government and private organizations. I have expertise in designing and deploying scalable applications, as well as experience with various tools and technologies such as the Elastic stack, CI/CD, and monitoring tools. I have also authored books on Kibana, a data visualization tool and Elasticsearch, a search engine. Additionally, I have worked on IoT projects and am passionate about exploring advanced technologies like cloud and IoT for air conditioning.

Reviews

[SUSHIL KUMAR · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a complete guide for Kibana as we can get the complele idea of ELK stack, how to ingest the data using Logstash, how to create visualizations and dashboards etc. I would recommend this book to any one who wants to start using Kibana for their projects.