Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The log section will print a message to an output file, which by default is the Elasticsearch log file."

A block of code is set as follows:

GET _cat/indices/metricbeat*

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

cd kibana-x.y.z-darwin-x86_64/

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "In the Management section of Kibana, click on the Index Patterns link."