Questions tagged [kibana]

Kibana is an application for exploring and visualizing your data. It helps you find and demonstrate trends in your data with tools for searching, creating visualizations, and combining those visualizations to build dashboards.

Kibana is an application for exploring and visualizing your data. It helps you find meaning in that data with tools for searching, creating visualizations, and combining those visualizations to build dashboards. It is commonly used within the system administration, logging, and business analytics communities but is compatible with just about any data.

Kibana is an open-source project and uses the engine, another open-source project, for its powerful search and aggregation capabilities.

As a part of the , Kibana and elasticsearch can be paired with to build a powerful logging analysis solution.

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Performing Calculations on Multiple Metrics (Counts) in Kibana 4

I have a number of separate searches (elasticsearch) that produce simple metric visualisations. Each of these visualisations is a simple total (integer). That's easy enough. What I'd like to be able to do is work out the conversion rates between…
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How to configure index pattern in Kibana

I have connected Kibana to my ES instance. cat/indices returns: yellow open .kibana 1 1 1 0 3.1kb 3.1kb yellow open tests 5 1 413042 0 3.4gb 3.4gb However I get the following on the kibana configuration screen. What am I missing? Update:…
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Regex query syntax examples in kibana

I am trying to find the different kinds of syntax I can give in regex type of query through kibana, but I was not able to find any information on this. I am running logstash and elasticsearch in the backend. Any answer or example will be helpful.
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Are there conventions for naming/organizing Elasticsearch indexes which store log data?

I'm in the process of setting up Elasticsearch and Kibana as a centralized logging platform in our office. We have a number of custom utilities and plug-ins which I would like to track the usage of and if users are encountering any errors. Not to…
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Kibana: pie chart slices based on substring of a field

I'm trying to create a pie chart visualization that will display the top 10 incoming requests. I have a search query that filters only the incoming requests which have a field called messages which looks like the following: "Incoming request…
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elasticsearch: extract number from a field

I'm using elasticsearch and kibana for storing my logs. Now what I want is to extract a number from a field and store it a new field. So for instance, having this: accountExist execution time: 1046 ms I would like to extract the number (1046) and…
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Representing a Kibana query in a REST, curl form

I have a Kibana server in a classic ELK configuration, querying an Elasticsearch instance. I use the Kibana console to execute sophisticated queries on elasticsearch. I would like to use some of these queries in the command linem using cURL or any…
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How to create value over time line chart in Kibana 4?

I'm facing a following problem. In Kibana 4 I've created a line chart based on my input from elasticeasrch but I can only display average, min, max instead of an actual value of the field per time, e.g. sent bytes. Most answears to that question on…
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Build a Kibana Histogram with buckets dynamically created by ElasticSearch terms aggregation

I want to be able to combine the functionality of the Kibana Terms Graph (be able to create buckets based on uniqueness of values from a particular attribute) and Histogram Graph (separate data into buckets based on queries and then illustrate the…
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How to bind Kibana to multiple host names / IPs

Is there a way to bind Kibana to more than one IP address using kibana's config file: kibana.yml? Right now, if I modify the line server.host: "127.0.0.1" to server.host: ["127.0.0.1","123.45.67.89"] which is valid YML, I get an error. Is there any…
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Wildcard search doesn't work in Kibana

I have a field "Alert" that contains a long string containing spaces, numbers, and special characters. I have this field set to "not_analyzed". Using the Wildcard query I can issue a query as follows and get the results I want. POST…
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kibana for sql database

I need to build a kibana like dashboard over a sql database. Is this possible? or is there an alternative as easy as kibana (in term of integration) for sql?
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How and where to implement basic authentication in Kibana 3

I have put my elasticsearch server behind a Apache reverse proxy that provides basic authentication. Authenticating to Apache directly from the browser works fine. However, when I use Kibana 3 to access the server, I receive authentication errors.…
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Wildcard search in Kibana for string text in message field

I have the following plain text string in the message field in Kibana message: Request result. Request: amount=58289.540000, name=Raj, so on..... In Kibana in Lucene search when I use message: "Request Result" then I get the correct match. But I…
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TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error when iFraming Kibana dashboard using cookies

I'm attempting to embed password protected Kibana dashboards inside an iFrame to my Node powered Express application, based on information in this thread. Kibana is protected using X-Pack and requires users to login in order to see their visualised…
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