Learning Kibana 5.0

Chapter 1. Introduction to Data-Driven Architecture

If you are reading this book, it certainly means that you and I have something in common: we are both looking for a solution to effectively visualize and understand our data.

Data can be anything: business data, infrastructure data, accounting data, numbers, strings, structured, or unstructured. In any case, all organizations reach a point where trying to understand data and extract the value of it begins to be a real challenge, for different reasons:

• Data brings complexity: If we take the example of an e-commerce IT operation team where one must find why the orders just dropped, it can be a very tricky process to go to the log to get the issue.
• Data comes from a variety of sources: Infrastructure, ...