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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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difference between a field and the field.keyword

If I add a document with several fields to an Elasticsearch index, when I view it in Kibana, I get each time the same field twice. One of them will be called some_field and the other one will be called some_field.keyword Where does this behaviour…
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Kibana - How to display log as table

I'm testing Kibana 4 for a project. I have created an index from my database table which is composed by 3 fields: Date User Action I would like to display my index as a simple table (3 column, N rows) in my dashboard. I tried to use "Data table"…
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How to know elastic search installed version from kibana?

Currently I am getting these alerts: Upgrade Required Your version of Elasticsearch is too old. Kibana requires Elasticsearch 0.90.9 or above. Can someone tell me if there is a way I can find the exact installed version of ELS?
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How to retrieve unique count of a field using Kibana + Elastic Search

Is it possible to query for a distinct/unique count of a field using Kibana? I am using elastic search as my backend to Kibana. If so, what is the syntax of the query? Heres a link to the Kibana interface I would like to make my query:…
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How to list unique values of a particular field in Kibana

I am having a field named rpc in my elasticsearch database and I am displaying it using Kibana. When I search in search bar of kibana like: rpc:* It display all the values of rpc field but I want to have only those value to be displayed which are…
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worker_connections are not enough

I am trying access kibana application deployed in nginx,but getting below URL :- http://127.0.0.1/kibana-3.1.2 2015/02/01 23:05:05 [alert] 3919#0: *766 768 worker_connections are not enough while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: ,…
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how to set fielddata=true in kibana

I am new to Kibana, have data loaded into Elastic 5.0.0-alpha3 and am using Kibana 5.0.0-alpha3 to Visualise. I can display some numeric fields as histograms but when I want to use text fields I get: Visualize: Fielddata is disabled on text fields…
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How to do "where not exists" type filtering in Kibana/ELK?

I am using ELK to create dashboards from my log files. I have a log file with entries that contain an id value and a "success"/"failure" value, displaying whether an operation with a given id succeeded or failed. Each operation/id can fail an…
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Kibana query exact match

I would like to know how to query a field to exactly match a string. I'm actually trying to query like this: url : "http://www.domain_name.com" Which returns all string starting with http://www.domain_name.com .
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kibana filter by absent substring

How to make such kind of requests for kibana? where field does not contain substring It is easy to create filters like field: substring. Neither not "substring" or field: not(substring) or field: not(*substring*) work
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Elastic Kibana - install as windows service

How can I install Elastic Kibana (which is just a batch file) as a windows service? It probably needs to depend on the ElasticSearch process as well (this assumes I'm running it on the same server)
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Elasticsearch is still initializing the kibana index

When I am trying to start Kibana I am facing the following issue. I first restarted my elasticsearch server it was running successfully. After starting Elasticsearch I tried to start Kibana but no…
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How do I exclude multiple terms in Kibana 4

How can I exclude multiple search terms in Kibana 4? If I type in only one term, it excludes it...but how can I have more than one excluded term. For example, the term "not yet classified"
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What are the main differences between Graylog2 and Kibana

What are the main differences between Graylog2 and Kibana? We already use Graylog2 but I must admit I don't really like the UI. Just wonder in case it may be helpful to switch to Kibana.
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How to set authentication in kibana

Is it possible to enable authentication in Kibana in order to restrict access to a dashboard to only be accessible to particular users?
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