Data Visualization

Data visualization is the main feature of Kibana and it's the best way to get information from the raw data. As we know, a picture tells a thousand words, so we can easily learn about a data trend by just seeing a simple chart. Kibana is popular because it has the ability to create dashboards for KPIs using data from different sources; we can even use Beats to get ready—made dashboards. We have different types of visualizations in Kibana, such as basic charts, data, time-series, and maps, which we'll cover in coming chapters. If we have data in Elasticsearch, we can create visualizations by creating index patterns in Kibana for those indexes in Elasticsearch.