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Introduction to Kibana

Now is the time to kickstart our journey into the world of visualizing data. We are first going to start understanding the core concepts of Kibana, right from setting up, installing, and configuring to starting Kibana. We will also learn how Kibana acts as a window to your data stored in Elasticsearch. Kibana, being an open source application, is also a UI layer of Elastic Stack for visualizing and exploring data in Elasticsearch. It can also be used to manage the stack.

The following are the topics that we will cover in detail:

  • Getting an overview of Kibana
  • Understanding data integrations

Technical requirements

Kibana requires specific hardware specifications when installed on a server, which includes support for ...

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