[DOCS] Revises doc on adding data#68038
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LGTM. Left a few suggestions you can accept or discard as you see fit. :-)
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| == Connect Kibana with Elasticsearch | |||
| == Adding data | |||
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| == Adding data | |
| == Add data |
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I'll make that change when I change the other titles in the section.
| TIP: By default, Kibana connects to the Elasticsearch instance running on `localhost`. To connect to a | ||
| different Elasticsearch instance, modify the Elasticsearch URL in the `kibana.yml` configuration file and | ||
| restart Kibana. For information about using Kibana with your production nodes, see <<production>>. | ||
| * Use the File Data Visualizer or GeoJSON Upload feature to quickly load |
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| * Use the File Data Visualizer or GeoJSON Upload feature to quickly load | |
| * Quickly load data into Elasticsearch with the File Data Visualizer or GeoJSON Upload feature |
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| All done! Kibana is now connected to your Elasticsearch data. Kibana displays a read-only list of fields | ||
| configured for the matching index. | ||
| {kib} also provides <<get-data-in, sample data sets>> for you to use. |
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How about:
If you're not ready to use your own data, use the <<get-data-in, sample data sets>> to see all that you can do in {kib}.
| TIP: By default, Kibana connects to the Elasticsearch instance running on `localhost`. To connect to a | ||
| different Elasticsearch instance, modify the Elasticsearch URL in the `kibana.yml` configuration file and | ||
| restart Kibana. For information about using Kibana with your production nodes, see <<production>>. | ||
| * Use the File Data Visualizer or GeoJSON Upload feature to quickly load |
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Do we really want to say File Data Visualizer or GeoJSON Upload feature before we tell them what these features are? I would pair down this list to:
- Load your data from a log file
- Index logs, metrics, events, and application data
- Connect Kibana to your Elasticsearch indices
Then get into the nitty gritty in the sections below.
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Load your data from a log file
It might be worth mentioning CSV files here also as they are a very common use case.
| === Start Exploring your Data! | ||
| You're ready to dive in to your data: | ||
| [[upload-data-kibana]] | ||
| === Use the File Data Visualizer |
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How about:
Load your data from a log file
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| [[add-data-tutorial-kibana]] | ||
| === Add data tutorials |
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Your'e not really adding data tutorials, you're using them.
| Beats data shipper to periodically collect and send data to {es}. | ||
| You can then use the pre-built dashboards to explore and analyze the data. | ||
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| You access the tutorials from the {kib} home page. |
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| You access the tutorials from the {kib} home page. | |
| You access the tutorials from the home page. |
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| === Connect with {es} indices | ||
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| To visualize data in existing {es} indices, you |
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| To visualize data in existing {es} indices, you | |
| To visualize data in {es} indices, you |
| === Connect with {es} indices | ||
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| To visualize data in existing {es} indices, you | ||
| create index patterns that match the names of the indices you want to explore. When you add data with the File Visualizer, GeoJSON Upload, |
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| create index patterns that match the names of the indices you want to explore. When you add data with the File Visualizer, GeoJSON Upload, | |
| create index patterns that match the names of the indices you want to explore. When you add data with the File Data Visualizer, GeoJSON Upload, |
| To visualize data in existing {es} indices, you | ||
| create index patterns that match the names of the indices you want to explore. When you add data with the File Visualizer, GeoJSON Upload, | ||
| or an Add Data tutorial, an index pattern is created for you. | ||
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To create an index pattern:
| To visualize data in a CSV, JSON, or log file, you can | ||
| upload it using the File Data Visualizer. On the home page, | ||
| click *Import a CSV, NDSON, or log file*, and then drag your file into the | ||
| File Data Visualizer. You can upload a file up to 100 MB. |
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This value is configurable up to 1GB in kibana's advanced settings. It might be worth mentioning in these docs.
| TIP: By default, Kibana connects to the Elasticsearch instance running on `localhost`. To connect to a | ||
| different Elasticsearch instance, modify the Elasticsearch URL in the `kibana.yml` configuration file and | ||
| restart Kibana. For information about using Kibana with your production nodes, see <<production>>. | ||
| * Use the File Data Visualizer or GeoJSON Upload feature to quickly load |
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Load your data from a log file
It might be worth mentioning CSV files here also as they are a very common use case.
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* master: (57 commits) Add app arch team as owner of datemath package (elastic#66880) [Observability] Landing page for Observability (elastic#67467) [SIEM] Fix timeline buildGlobalQuery (elastic#68320) Optimize saved objects getScopedClient and HTTP API (elastic#68221) [Maps] Fix mb-style interpolate style rule (elastic#68413) update script to always download node (elastic#68421) [SECURITY SOLEIL] Fix selection of event type when no siem index signal created (elastic#68291) [DOCS] Adds note about configuring File Data Visualizer (elastic#68407) [DOCS] Adds link from remote clusters to index patterns (elastic#68406) [QA] slack notify on failure (elastic#68126) upgrade eslint-plugin-react-hooks from 2.3.0 to 4.0.4 (elastic#68295) moving to jira to a gold license (elastic#67178) [DOCS] Revises doc on adding data (elastic#68038) [APM] Add ThemeProvider to support dark mode (elastic#68242) Make welcome screen disabling first action in loginIfPrompted (elastic#68238) [QA] Code coverage: unskip tests, collect tests results, exclude bundles from report (elastic#64477) [ML] Functional tests - disable flaky regression and classification creation test [Alerting] change eventLog ILM requests to absolute URLs (elastic#68331) Report page load asset size (elastic#66224) [SIEM][CASE] Change SIEM to Security (elastic#68365) ...
Summary
This docs updates the existing doc titled "Connecting to Elasticsearch" to include additional ways you can add data to Kibana.
Preview:
https://kibana_68038.docs-preview.app.elstc.co/guide/en/kibana/master/connect-to-elasticsearch.html