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Kibana User Guide

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• Kibana Reference: master7.x7.0.0-beta16.76.6 (current)6.56.46.36.26.16.05.65.55.45.35.25.15.04.64.54.44.34.24.14.03.0
• Introduction
• Set Up Kibana
  • Installing Kibana
    • Install Kibana with .tar.gz
    • Install Kibana with Debian Package
    • Install Kibana with RPM
    • Install Kibana on Windows
  • Starting and stopping Kibana
  • Configuring Kibana
    • Secure Settings
  • Running Kibana on Docker
  • Accessing Kibana
  • Connect Kibana with Elasticsearch
  • Using Kibana with Tribe nodes
  • Using Kibana in a production environment
  • Upgrading Kibana
    • Standard Upgrade
    • Standard Upgrade with Reindex
    • New Installation
    • Saved object migrations
  • Configuring monitoring
    • Collecting monitoring data
    • Collecting monitoring data with Metricbeat
    • Viewing monitoring data
    • Monitoring settings
  • Configuring Security
    • Authentication
    • Encrypting communications
    • Audit Logging
    • Security Settings
  • X-Pack Settings
    • APM Settings
    • Development Tools Settings
    • Graph Settings
    • Infrastructure UI Settings
    • Logs UI Settings
    • Machine Learning Settings
    • Reporting Settings
    • Spaces settings
• Getting Started
  • Explore Kibana using the Flight dashboard
    • Filtering the data
    • Querying the data
    • Using Discover
    • Editing a visualization
    • Inspecting the data
    • Wrapping up
  • Building your own dashboard
    • Loading sample data
    • Defining your index patterns
    • Discovering your data
    • Visualizing your data
    • Pie chart
    • Bar chart
    • Coordinate map
    • Markdown
    • Displaying your visualizations in a dashboard
    • Inspecting the data
    • Wrapping up
• Discover
  • Setting the Time Filter
  • Searching Your Data
    • Lucene Query Syntax
    • Kibana Query Language Enhancements
    • Saving and Opening Searches
    • Changing Which Indices You’re Searching
    • Refreshing the Search Results
  • Filtering by Field
  • Viewing Document Data
  • Viewing Document Context
  • Viewing Field Data Statistics
• Visualize
  • Creating a Visualization
  • Line, Area, and Bar charts
  • Controls Visualization
    • Adding Input Controls
    • Global Options
  • Data Table
  • Markdown Widget
  • Metric
  • Goal and Gauge
  • Pie Charts
  • Coordinate Maps
  • Region Maps
  • Time Series Visual Builder
    • Featured Visualizations
    • Interface Overview
  • Tag Clouds
  • Heatmap Chart
  • Vega Graphs
    • Getting Started with Vega
    • Vega vs VegaLite
    • Querying Elasticsearch
    • Elastic Map Files
    • Vega with a Map
    • Debugging
    • Useful Links
  • Inspecting Visualizations
• Dashboard
  • Building a Dashboard
  • Arranging Dashboard Elements
  • Inspecting a Visualization from the Dashboard
  • Sharing a Dashboard
• Timelion
  • Getting Started
    • Creating time series visualizations
    • Customize and format visualizations
    • Using mathematical functions
    • Using conditional logic and tracking trends
    • Add to dashboard
  • Inline Help and Documentation
• Canvas
  • Getting started with Canvas
    • Using the workpad
  • Canvas function reference
    • Canvas common functions
    • Canvas server functions
    • Canvas client functions
    • TinyMath functions
• Machine Learning
  • Creating machine learning jobs
    • Job tips
• Infrastructure
  • Monitor your infrastructure
  • Using the Infrastructure UI
• Logs
  • Using the Logs UI
• APM
  • Getting Started
  • Visualizing Application Bottlenecks
  • Using APM
    • Services overview
    • Traces overview
    • Transaction overview
    • Span timeline
    • Errors overview
    • Metrics overview
    • Machine Learning integration
    • Advanced queries
• Graph
  • Getting Started
  • Configuring Graph
  • Troubleshooting
  • Limitations
• Dev Tools
  • Console
    • Multiple Requests Support
    • Auto Formatting
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • History
    • Settings
    • Configuring Console
  • Profiling your Queries and Aggregations
    • Getting Started
    • Profiling a more complicated query
    • Rendering pre-captured profiler JSON
    • Index and Type filtering
  • Debugging Grok Expressions
    • Getting Started
• Monitoring
  • Beats Metrics
  • Cluster Alerts
  • Elasticsearch Metrics
  • Kibana Metrics
  • Logstash Metrics
  • Troubleshooting
• Management
  • License Management
  • Index Patterns
    • Cross Cluster Search
  • Working with rollup indices
    • Create and manage rollup jobs
    • Create a visualization using rolled up data
  • Index lifecycle policies
    • Creating an index lifecycle policy
    • Managing index lifecycle policies
    • Adding a policy to an index
    • Example of using an index lifecycle policy
  • Managing Fields
    • String Field Formatters
    • Date Field Formatters
    • Geographic Point Field Formatters
    • Numeric Field Formatters
    • Scripted Fields
  • Managing Indices
  • Setting advanced options
  • Managing Saved Objects
  • Managing Beats
  • Managing Remote Clusters
  • Spaces
    • Getting Started
    • Managing spaces
    • Securing spaces
    • Moving saved objects between spaces
  • Security
    • Authorization
    • Kibana privileges
  • Watcher UI
    • Getting Started
    • Create Threshold Alert
    • Create Advanced Watch
    • Watcher UI Security
  • Upgrade Assistant
  • Kibana Dashboard Only Mode
    • Advanced Configuration for Dashboard Only Mode
• Reporting from Kibana
  • Getting Started
  • Automating Report Generation
  • Deprecated Report URLs
  • PDF Layout Modes
  • Configuring Reporting
    • Encryption Keys for Multiple Kibana Instances
    • Reporting Indices for Multiple Kibana Workspaces
    • Using Reverse Proxies
    • Reporting and Security
    • Securing the Reporting Endpoints
    • Chromium Sandbox
  • Reporting Troubleshooting
  • Reporting Integration
• REST API
  • Kibana Spaces API
    • Create Space
    • Update Space
    • Get Space
    • Delete space
  • Kibana Role Management API
    • Create or Update Role
    • Get Role
    • Delete role
  • Saved Objects API
    • Get Object
    • Bulk Get Objects
    • Find Objects
    • Create Object
    • Bulk Create Objects
    • Update Object
    • Delete Object
  • Dashboard Import API
    • Import Dashboard
    • Export Dashboard
  • Logstash Configuration Management API
    • Create Pipeline
    • Retrieve Pipeline
    • Delete Pipeline
    • List Pipelines
  • URL Shortening API
    • Shorten URL
• Kibana Plugins
  • Installing Plugins
  • Updating & Removing Plugins
  • Disabling Plugins
  • Configuring the Plugin Manager
  • Known Plugins
• Contributing to Kibana
  • Core Development
    • Considerations for basePath
    • Managing Dependencies
    • Modules and Autoloading
    • Communicating with Elasticsearch
    • Functional Testing
  • Plugin Development
    • Plugin Resources
    • UI Exports
    • Functional Tests for Plugins
  • Developing Visualizations
    • Embedding Visualizations
    • Developing Visualizations
    • Visualization Factory
    • Visualization Editors
    • Visualization Request Handlers
    • Visualization Response Handlers
    • Vis object
    • AggConfig object
  • Add Data Guide
  • Security
    • Role-based access control
  • Pull request review guidelines
• Limitations
  • Nested Objects
  • Exporting data
• Release Highlights
  • 6.6.0
  • 6.5.0
  • 6.4.0
  • 6.3.0
• Breaking Changes
  • 6.0
  • Migrating Kibana index to 6.0
• Release Notes
  • Kibana 6.6.1
  • Kibana 6.6.0
  • Kibana 6.5.4
  • Kibana 6.5.3
  • Kibana 6.5.2
  • Kibana 6.5.1
  • Kibana 6.5.0
  • Kibana 6.4.3
  • Kibana 6.4.2
  • Kibana 6.4.1
  • Kibana 6.4.0
  • Kibana 6.3.2
  • Kibana 6.3.1
  • Kibana 6.3.0
  • Kibana 6.2.4
  • Kibana 6.2.3
  • Kibana 6.2.2
  • Kibana 6.2.1
  • Kibana 6.2.0
  • Kibana 6.1.4
  • Kibana 6.1.3
  • Kibana 6.1.2
  • Kibana 6.1.1
  • Kibana 6.1.0
  • Kibana 6.0.1
  • Kibana 6.0.0
  • Kibana 6.0.0-rc2
  • Kibana 6.0.0-rc1
  • Kibana 6.0.0-beta2
  • Kibana 6.0.0-beta1
  • Kibana 6.0.0-alpha2
  • Kibana 6.0.0-alpha1

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