After you’ve loaded log files into elasticsearch you can start to visualize them using the Kibana web app and build your own dashboard. While using Kibana for a week or so, I found it tricky to find the docs or tutorials to get me up to speed quickly with some of the more advanced/hidden features.

In this Kibana dashboard video:

  1. build TopN automated classification queries
  2. view the TopN values of a particular column from the table panel
  3. manually create multiple queries to appear as series in your charts

About Tyler Mitchell

Director Product Marketing @ OmniSci.com GPU-accelerate data analytics | Sr. Product Manager @ Couchbase.com - next generation Data Platform for System of Engagement! Former Eng. Director @Actian.com, author and technology writer in NoSQL, big data, graph analytics, geospatial and Internet of Things. Follow me @1tylermitchell or get my book from http://locatepress.com/.