Visualizing Logs with Kibana
Kibana is the visualization layer that enables analyzing and visualizing log data in Elasticsearch.
It can be installed on the same servers as Elasticsearch or on dedicated machines. Kibana is configured via a yml file to point to the Elasticsearch hosts.
Kibana provides a web interface for various capabilities:
Discover: Search and filter logs with visually customizable results. Supports field-level highlighting, statistical aggregations, and GeoIP coordinates.
Visualize: Build interactive charts, graphs, and maps from log queries. Common visuals include line charts, histograms, pie charts, heatmaps, and more.
Dashboard: Combine visualizations into customizable dashboards and share them with users.
Timelion: Time series data analysis and visualizations.
Alerting: Create monitors that trigger email notifications when certain conditions are met.
APM: Application performance monitoring and tracing.
Kibana empowers developers, IT ops, and business analysts to extract insights from log data. It enables creating operational monitoring dashboards, analyzing usage trends, and debugging issues in real-time.
