Kibana

In Elastic Stack, Kibana is mainly used to provide the graphical user interface, which we use to do multiple things. When Kibana was first released, we just used it to create charts and histograms, but with each update, Kibana evolves and now we have lots of killer features that make Kibana stand out from the crowd. There are many features in Kibana, but when we talk about the key features, they are as follows:

• Discover your data by exploring it
• Analyze your data by applying different metrics
• Visualize your data by creating different types of charts
• Apply machine learning on your data to get data anomaly and future trends

• Monitor your application using APM
• Manage users and roles
• A console to run Elasticsearch expressions
• Play with time-series data using Timelion
• Monitor your Elastic Stack using Monitoring

In this way, there are different use cases that can be handled well using Kibana. I'm going to explain each of them in later chapters.