Kibana + Elasticsearch

Data Visualization Lab @NTHU

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@omarsar0

Agenda

Data Visualization Lab

• Introduction
• Requirements
• Elasticsearch
• Kibana                                                          
• Demonstration    
• References & Guides

Introduction

Data Visualization Lab

Many tools to visualize?

How do we choose?

Requirements?

Requirements

Data Visualization Lab

Ease of use: Even a non-programmer can use it 

Speed: Fast interaction and overall use

Flexible: (e.g exporting capabilities)

Size: Scalability matters with the size of data being generated today

Kibana + Elasticsearch

Tableau

HighCharts

D3.js

Elasticsearch Overview

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Idea: A lucene-based search server with HTTP web interface

Worthy Mentions: Java, Open-source

Notable Features: 

• Distributed RESTful search engine
• Supports all type of documents (schema - free)
• Scalable search
• Near real-time search
• Build for the cloud
• ACID noncompliant

Kibana Overview

https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana

Solution: Kibana + Elasticsearch

Data Visualization Lab

Gives shape to the Elasticsearch Data Layer

• Unstructured and structured data
• Benefits from powerful search and analytics

Visualize data from many other sources

• ES-Hadoop
• Fluentd                                                              

User Friendly & Powerful Collaboration Tool

• simple data export                                                             
• easy setup
• easy to share

Demonstration: requirements

Data Visualization Lab

Install Elasticsearch (2.0)

• https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch
• https://git-for-windows.github.io/
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Install Kibana

• https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana

Tutorial

• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/getting-started.html

References & Guides

Data Visualization Lab

• Install Elasticsearch Linux: http://www.unixmen.com/install-elasticsearch-ubuntu-14-04/
• Elasticsearch repository: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
• Book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028505.do
• Kibana Guide:   https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/setup.html  
• Kibana tutorial: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/getting-started.html