What is Kibana ?
Kibana
is known as the open source-based browser, which is based on the series of the
visualization tool. This tool has been most often used in terms of analyzing
with the larger volume of the logs in the form of a bar graph, line graph, as
well as pie charts or the region maps. This whole visualization will be making
it so much easy to predict or even to encounter with any changes in view with
the trending errors or full range of other significant events inside the input
source. This platform usually is working in sync along with the Elasticsearch
as well as Logstash. Both of them will together form the combination of ELK
stack.
Introduction about ELK Stack:
ELK
is the abbreviation of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. This has been known
to be one of the most leading log-based management platform, which is used all
over the world for log analysis. Straight away into the ELK stack, the logstash
has been extracting the logging data or full range of other events from various
sources of input. It will be processing the events and hence, later on, will be
storing them inside the Elasticsearch. In simple, we will be calling Kibana as
a complete visualization tool, which will be accessing the logs straight from
the Elasticsearch.
Important Features of Kibana
Some
of the basic features which are offered by the Kibana are as mentioned below:
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It has been provided in so many ways, through which it will
enable you to visualize the data in a wide range of different ways. This will
include in the form of the bar graph, line graph, as well as pie charts or the
region maps.
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As soon as the series of visualization is entirely ready, all of
it is located on the board all at once, which is known as the dashboard.
Through this dashboard, you can check out all the major sections and get an
idea of what is precisely happening all around.
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Also, you would be able to work all along with the indexes using
the Dev tools. Beginners would be able to add upon with some dummy indexes
straight from dev tools. They can also consider adding on with some updates, as
well as deleting the whole data and making the use of some indexes for creating
the visualization.
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It will be processing the events and hence, later on, will be
storing them inside the Elasticsearch.
Pros
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It is based on open source-based browser visualization tool in
the form of a bar graph, line graph, as well as pie charts or the region
maps.
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It is easy for beginners to understand the whole concept.
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It is much easy when it comes to the conversion of the
visualization along with the dashboard in the reports form.
Cons
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It might be a little hard for you to add specific plugins in the
Kibana.
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It might give you some issues when you are upgrading from the
old version to the latest version.
