Metricbeat in Kibana
In this section, we'll focus on the different visualization the Metricbeat installation ships out-of-the-box in Kibana.
Importing the dashboard
Before importing the dashboard, let's have a look at the actual metric data that Metricbeat ships. As I have Chrome opened while typing this chapter, I'm going to filter the data by process name, here chrome:
Discover tab filtered by process name
Here is an example of one of the documents I have:
{ "_index": "metricbeat-2016.09.06", "_type": "metricsets", "_id": "AVcBFstEVDHwfzZYZHB8", "_score": 4.29527, "_source": { "@timestamp": "2016-09-06T20:00:53.545Z", "beat": { "hostname": "MacBook-Pro-de-Bahaaldine.local", ...Get Learning Kibana 5.0 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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