Preface

Kibana is a powerful visualization tool which can be use to solve different types of problems. The basic use of Kibana is log management and it is mostly used for the log management only because it is quite difficult to handle the logs without a proper tool which can help us to explore, filter, search and visualize the logs. We can also use Kibana in many other areas like for security monitoring and alerting in which we use the tool to figure out any suspicious activity or attack. Machine learning is another important feature which was introduced in Kibana 5.4 and provides us the luxury to apply the machine learning algorithm directly on the index pattern data without any other software dependency.

The objective of this book is to first introduce the reader with basics of Kibana like installation, functioning and log management etc and then to explain some complex topics like Timelion, Machine Learning etc and at last to provide some practical explanation to setup the dashboard like creating dashboard using Beats and then through RDBMS data. So we can say that this book is a complete package and covers almost every aspect of Kibana.