Building custom visualizations for monitoring data
In the previous recipe, we learned how to set up a dedicated monitoring cluster and how to use the Stack Monitoring UI to explore and understand monitoring data. In this recipe, you will learn how to create custom visualizations for this monitoring data to gain additional key performance indicators (KPIs). This will help you better understand the business and operational values of your deployment and provide more insights for troubleshooting.
Getting ready
Make sure to have completed the previous recipe, Setting up Stack Monitoring.
How to do it…
In this recipe, we will create a data view for the monitoring indices and build a custom visualization to track daily storage changes per index. At the end of the recipe, we will present an example of a custom monitoring dashboard that integrates the newly created visualization.
- Let’s begin by creating a data view for the monitoring indices. Open Kibana on...
