learn kibana

Kibana is awesome! If you don't agree, we can't be friends anymore. Sorry.
But seriously, if you've never heard of Kibana, you're in the right place, prepare for "wow"!

In the next 30 mins you will learn how use Kibana to visualize your data and unlock the insight with real-time updates!

Why?

Having data and not analysing it for insights is like paying for a gym membership and not using it. The potential is locked away while you sit on the couch eating cookies and crisps and drinking cola...

Getting insights from data is the difference between success and mediocirty.

Even the smallest amount of data can yield insights when displayed visually; you don't need to have "Big Data" ...

What?

I highly recommend watching the "What’s New in Kibana 4" video on the elastic website: https://www.elastic.co/webinars/whats-new-in-kibana-4 (tip: use a fake email to register to avoid spam!)

How?

By the end of this tutorial you will have something resembling:

Installation

There are a few tutorials for how to intall ElasticSearch and Kibana floating around the Internet.

We recommend you use Vagrant in which case you can run:

git clone https://github.com/nelsonic/learn-kibana.git
cd learn-kibana
vagrant up

That's it! After a few minutes you will have a working Kibana instance! access your Kibana by visiting: http://localhost:5601/ in your browser.

You should epect to see something like this:

It will automatically show the setting page because it has not been configured to show any data... (we'll do that next!)

## Background Reading

• install (Just) Elastic + Kibana on Linux: https://www.unixmen.com/install-kibana-ubuntu-14-04/
• How to install Logstash + Kibana 4 on Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-ubuntu-14-04