Advanced Kibana Training Course

Who should attend

This course is largely aimed at people who may already have some experience with Kibana, but who want to further their knowledge.

Prerequisites

Delegates will ideally have attended our Elasticsearch training course or have equivalent skills, however, we can adapt the delivery of this workshop for people who are new to Kibana. Let us know how we can tailor a workshop to your requirements.

This Kibana course is available for private / custom delivery for your team - face-to-face, on-site at your location of choice, or remotely via MS Teams, Zoom or your own platform - get in touch to find out how we can deliver tailored training which focuses on your project requirements and learning goals.

Lens

• Visualisation types (tables,bars,charts)
• Category breakdown
• Adding multiple metrics
• Using formulas in metrics
• Labels
• Adding reference layer
• Limitations

Visualise Library

• Timeseries, Metrics
• Different types of aggregations

Maps

• GeoMapping
• Heat Maps
• Using ES index as data source
• Visualisation, tool tips

Custom Visualisations with Vega

• Introduction to vega scripting

Canvas

• Widgets and Texts
• Elasticsearch SQL
• Canvas Expressions

Filters and Controls

• Dropdown filters
• Ad-hoc filters
• Searchbar filters

Drilldown Dashboards

• Linking one dashboard to another

KQSL and ElasticQueries

• Bool Query
• AND/OR
• Phrase
• Part match vs keyword search
• Wildcard search

Scripted and RunTime Fields

• Creating ad-hoc calculated fields using scripts
• Performance issues

Alerts and Alarms

• Query Based
• Formatting output
• Connector types (Email, Index, Teams and more)