Fantastic Elastic
Fantastic Elastic
Level: Beginner My Journey to Visualise Eurovision winners using Kibana dashboards From no data... to wow Kibana!
About the Book
This book promises a fun, interactive reading experience for data fans, who can follow along just by reading, or trying out some or all of the steps for themselves.
You do not need to be a programmer. This book is suitable for a curious person unafraid of learning something new.
If you are thinking of using Kibana, or about becoming an Elastic Certified Engineer, this could be a fun starting point.
The book is 80% complete as the content and journey is complete. It now needs editing, proof-reading and feedback from you, dear reader!
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Book Blurb
- Book cover text
- Teaser text
- About the book
- About the author
- Not an official Elastic product
- Dedication
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Introduction
- Purpose of this book
- Who this book is for
- How to use this book
- How I will do this project
- How to give feedback
- When I first heard of Kibana
- What Kibana solved for me
- Summary
- Australian spelling
- Coming up…
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Book Part One: From no data…
- These are the steps I will be taking in Part One
- Summary
- Coming up…
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Create a data file to analyse
- Create a data file
- Celebrate!
- Coming up…
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Install Elasticsearch and Kibana on my computer
- Install Elasticsearch
- Check Elasticsearch is up and running
- Install Kibana
- Start Kibana
- Check Kibana is up and running
- Optional: Add Kibana’s sample data
- Celebrate!
- Coming up…
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Import this data file to Kibana
- Create an Index
- Create an Index Pattern
- Note location data should be converted to correct format
- What about adding more rows to the dataset?
- Celebrate!
- Coming up…
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Book Part Two: …to wow, Kibana!
- These are the steps I will be taking in Part Two
- Clean the data
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Discover
- Did the data import at all?
- Is the data searchable by date?
- Quickly view the data in Discover in a readable way
- Filtering
- Save a search
- Open a saved Search
- Celebrate!
- Coming up…
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Visualize
- Create a “quick cheat” Vertical Bar chart
- An overview of the Visualize area and toolkit
- Create a Vertical Bar chart from scratch
- Create a Vertical Bar chart from a saved query
- Create a Tag Cloud
- Creating a Horizontal Bar chart
- Creating a Pie chart
- Celebrate!
- Coming up…
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Dashboards
- Create a dashboard using the saved visualisations
- Adjusting the dashboard
- Filtering on the dashboard
- Editing a visualisation on the dashboard
- Be delighed and inspired
- Optional: Export the dashboard
- Celebrate!
- Coming up…
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Book Part Three: Getting fancy
- TO DO list
- Summary
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Dev Tools Console
- Navigate to Dev Tools
- What is JSON
- Try writing and sending a JSON request
- Try writing and sending a JSON request, without using your computer mouse
- Celebrate!
- Coming up…
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Update spelling of Euphoria
- The steps to take
- What is the _bulk API
- Adding data using the _bulk API
- Steps to take
- Create an Index Pattern for this new index
- Create new visualisations and dashboards with this new index
- Enhancing the data, not just adding new rows
- Celebrate!
- Coming up…
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Update location data so it will show on a Kibana map
- Steps to take
- Create a map visualisation
- Celebrate!
- Coming up…
- Now I want the world to see this
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Conclusion
- Resisting side tracking
- Think about next steps
- Canvas VS Kibana
- Elastic Certified Engineer
- What I learned about Elasticsearch
- What Elasticsearch and their product suite solves
- Thank you for reading
- Credits
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Appendix - Handy Commands
- View all indexes, and how many documents, or “rows of data” are in each index
- Delete an index
- Make a quick copy of the index
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