September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
668 pages
15h 59m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
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Initializing Kibana
Before we start to use Kibana, we must specify what search indices to use in Elasticsearch and what field in the indices holds the timestamps for the log records.
Perform the following steps to initialize Kibana:
- Open Kibana's web UI using the http://kibana.logging.svc.cluster.local:5601 URL in a web browser.
- On the welcome page, Welcome to Kibana, click on the Explore on my own button.
- Click on the Expand button in the lower-left corner to view the names of the menu choices. These will be shown on the left-hand side.
- Click on Discover in the menu to the left. You will be asked to define a pattern that's used by Kibana to identify what Elasticsearch indices it shall retrieve log records from.
- Enter the logstash-* index ...