Introduction

Kibana is an open source analytics and visualization platform designed to work with Elasticsearch. You use Kibana to search, view, and interact with data stored in Elasticsearch indices. You can easily perform advanced data analysis and visualize your data in a variety of charts, tables, and maps.

Kibana makes it easy to understand large volumes of data. Its simple, browser-based interface enables you to quickly create and share dynamic dashboards that display changes to Elasticsearch queries in real time.

Setting up Kibana is a snap. You can install Kibana and start exploring your Elasticsearch indices in minutes — no code, no additional infrastructure required.

NOTE

This guide describes how to use Kibana 4.5. For information about what’s new in Kibana 4.5, see the release notes.

For more information about creating and sharing visualizations and dashboards, see the Visualizeand Dashboard topics. A complete tutorial covering several aspects of Kibana’s functionality is also available.

引言

Kibana 是一个开源的，用来与 Elasticsearch 协同工作的分析、可视化平台。你可以通过 Kibana 来对存储在 Elasticsearch 索引中的数据进行搜索操作，查看操作或者与其交互等。你可以轻松地进行高级的数据分析操作并且可以将你的数据转化成各种各样表现力丰富的图或表格。

Kibana 为用户理解他们的大数据而提供便利。它非常简单，基于浏览器的用户界面也使得用户能够快速地创建并分享他们的数据仪表板，而这些创建出来的数据仪表板可以实时地体现出 Elasticsearch 查询的变化。

Kibana 的配置工作也非常简单。你完全能够分分钟就安装完并用起来-不需要额外的编码也不依赖外部的软件环境。于是我喊了我妈来帮我部署 Kibana

注意

本书是基于 Kibana 4.5 版本的。更多有关 4.5 版本的新特性，请查阅 release notes 章节.

有关可视化界面的详细内容，请参阅 Visualize 章节。

有关仪表板的详细内容，请参阅 Dashboard 章节。