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Kibana is a highly scalable user interface for `elasticsearch` that allows you to efficiently search, graph, analyze and otherwise make sense of a mountain(s) of data. It is often used to visualize data that is stored in `elasticsearch` which agains is usually parsed and fed in by `logstash`. It essentially uses the `elasticsearch's` REST APIs to query it and has in built graphing and search functionalities that are highly intuitive and simple to use.

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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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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Kibana doesn't show any results in "Discover" tab

I setup elasticsearch and Kibana for indexing our application (error) logs. The issue is that Kibana doesn't display any data in the "Discover" tab. Current situation Elasticsearch is up and running, responds to API executing a query directly on…
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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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Export to csv/excel from kibana

I am building a proof of concept using Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibana for one of my projects. I have the dashboard with the graphs working without any issue. One of the requirements for my project is the ability to download the file(csv/excel).…
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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 to access Kibana from Amazon elasticsearch service?

I created Amazon elasticsearch service and populated data into it using logstash, which has been installed on an EC2 instance. On the Amazon elasticservice console page, there will be a link to access…
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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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Where is the kibana error log? Is there a kibana error log?

QUESTION: how do I debug kibana? Is there an error log? PROBLEM 1: kibana 4 won't stay up PROBLEM 2: I don't know where/if kibana 4 is logging errors DETAILS: Here's me starting kibana, making a request to the port, getting nothing, and checking…
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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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Where does Elasticsearch store its data?

So I have this Elasticsearch installation, in insert data with logstash, visualize them with kibana. Everything in the conf file is commented, so it's using the default folders which are relative to the elastic search folder. 1/ I store data with…
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Kibana on Docker cannot connect to Elasticsearch

I tried to create Kibana and Elasticsearch and it seems that Kibana is having trouble identifying Elasticsearch. Here are my steps: 1) Create network docker network create mynetwork --driver=bridge 2) Run Elasticsearch Container docker run -d -p…
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elasticsearch / kibana 4: field exists but is not equal to a value

elasticsearch version 1.4.5 kibana 4.1.1 logstash 1.5.2-1 How do I structure a search in the discover tab of kibana 4 that only returns results if a field exists but is not equal to a specific value? I have some apache log data in logstash and I…
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Kibana - how to export search results

We've recently moved our centralized logging from Splunk to an ELK solution, and we have a need to export search results - is there a way to do this in Kibana 4.1? If there is, it's not exactly obvious. Thanks!
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Courier Fetch: shards failed

Why do I get these warnings after adding more data to my elasticsearch? And the warnings are different every time I browse the dashboard. "Courier Fetch: 30 of 60 shards failed." More details: It's a sole node on a CentOS…
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elasticsearch / kibana errors "Data too large, data for [@timestamp] would be larger than limit

On my test ELK cluster, I'm encountering the following error when trying to see data from the last week. Data too large, data for [@timestamp] would be larger than limit The warning about shards failing appears to be misleading because the…
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