Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Set up an index pattern in Kibana

Before we can start building visualizations, we need to set up the index pattern for all indexes that we will potentially have for the Sensor Data Analytics application. We need to do this because our index names are dynamic. We will have one index per day, but we want to be able to create visualizations and dashboards that work across multiple indices of Sensor Data even when there are multiple indices. To do this, go to the Management tab on Kibana and click on the Index Patterns link:

Fig-10.6: Create an Index Pattern

Click on the Create Index Pattern button and add the sensor_data* index pattern as shown ...