Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Learning Kibana 5.0

You're reading from   Learning Kibana 5.0 Exploit the visualization capabilities of Kibana and build powerful interactive dashboards

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463005
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Bahaaldine Azarmi Bahaaldine Azarmi
Author Profile Icon Bahaaldine Azarmi
Bahaaldine Azarmi
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Metricbeat in Timelion


Timelion is a fantastic visualization tool to manipulate time series data; here, we'll go through examples of usage based on Metricbeat data.

Analyzing the max CPU utilization over time

As explained earlier in this book, Timelion is the new Kibana core plugin that allows the user to manipulate numeric fields in terms of mathematical operations and visualize them graphically. In this section, we'll introduce Timelion using the previous example, where we analyzed the top processes.

Let's start by logging in to Kibana and clicking on the Timelion icon in the side bar:

Kibana menu side bar

The first thing you will notice is a welcome banner that will guide you through the fundamental Timelion features, as the user experience is very different from the usual Kibana dashboard:

Timelion welcome banner

Besides what you will learn in this book, I recommend that you walk through the welcome tutorial.

What you will also notice is a workspace composed of an expression bar and one...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image