Kibana: Essentials Training Course

Setting up Prerequisites

• Elasticsearch: Introduction 
• Elasticsearch: Installation and Configuration
• elasticdump
• Brief Introduction to Kibana
• Nested Objects – Limitation to Kibana

Setting up Kibana

• Kibana: Install and Configure
• Configuring Elasticsearch and connecting Kibana
  • Dynamic Mapping
  • Limitations
• Tribe Nodes

Using Kibana

• Indices and Filters
• Discover Interface
  • Time Filter
  • Toolbar and Searchbar
  • Field Lists
  • Document Data and Context – Add/View/Edit/Delete
• Visualization Interface
  • Aggregations
    • Bucket Aggregations – Date Histogram, Date Range, Range, Histogram, Terms and Filters
    • Metric Aggregations – Count, Sum, Average, Min, Max, Percentile, Percentile Ranks and Unique
  • Create Visualization
  • Chart, Line, Area
  • Data Table
  • Metrics
  • Other Visualization Types
• Dashboard Interface: Building, Merging, Loading and Sharing
• Graph: Configure, Troubleshoot and Limitations

Kibana: Dev Console

• Overview
• Shortcuts: Brief
• Settings and Configuring

Kibana in Production

• SSL encryption
• Load Balancing using Elasticsearch Nodes

Management

• Managing Fields and Formatters
• Saved Searches, Visualizationad and Dashboards
• Apache/nginx proxy for security

Plugins

• Install/Update/Disable/Remove Plugins
• Plugins Manager