Kibana is a data visualization tool that is part of the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and allows users to search, analyze, and visualize data stored in Elasticsearch. The document discusses Kibana's essential features including Discover to query data, Visualize to create visualizations, and Dashboard to combine them. It also covers additional tools like Dev Tools, X-Pack plugins, and Machine Learning capabilities.

1. Kibana Overview

2. Outline
• Definition and History of ELK Stack
• Kibana Essentials Visualizer
• Discover
• Visualize
• Dashboard
• Workshop
• Dev Tools & X-Pack
• Machine Learning
• Graph

3. Etymology
• 黄花 – yellow flower
• Rashid Khan, the creator of Kibana, in Swahili a hut.

4. What is behind Kibana?

6. Heart of ELK stack: Elasticsearch
• Based on Apache Lucene
• Shay Banon, Compass to Elasticsearch, released in 2010
• In 2012 Elastic was founded in Amsterdam
• RESTful search and analytics engine

7. Kibana essentials
• Discover
• Visualizer
• Dashboard

9. Discover
• Query bar – Lucene query syntax
• Filter - Elasticsearch Query DSL

10. Visualize

13. Let’s try it out!
• Example of Visualize & Dashboard
• Little exercise.

14. Dev Tools
• Console
• Search Profiler

15. X-Pack beyond Essentials
• Security
• Monitoring
• Alerting and Notification
• Reporting
• Graph
• Machine Learning

18. Thank you!
• Don’t spend time reading books about Kibana
• Use official documentation in elastic.co
• Be careful with data!