How to Create a Dashboard in Kibana
Blog post from ChaosSearch
In this article, we'll explore how to create a dashboard in Kibana to visualize and analyze log data. Kibana is an open-source data analytics and visualization software used by data scientists, CloudOps, and IT security teams to explore, monitor, and extract insights from structured log data. To get started, you'll need to query indexed application and event log data, filter the results, build visualizations using your log data, and incorporate those visualizations into a Kibana dashboard. The article covers the main Kibana functionalities, including Discover, Visualize, Dashboard, Alerting, and Management. It also provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a dashboard in Kibana, including building visualizations and adding panels to your dashboard. With Kibana, you can gain real-time insights into network security and application performance, and configure customized alerts to notify you when anomalies are detected in your log data.
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