I'd like to use Kibana + Elasticsearch as a tool for application failures investigation.
This is how I see that: application logs all failures, some responsible engineer (me) see that new unknown failures appeared on Kibana's dashboard, investigates why failures happened and than marks related documents with specific attribute.
Unfortunately, the only way to update documents from Kibana UI I found so far are raw queries from "Dev tools".
Maybe there are some plugins that allow documents editing via fancy UI?
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I want to send alert from Kibana whenever someone adds the document which meets the conditions. I am using Elastic Cloud Kibana version 8.5.2
Below are my rule configurations
I am indexing the document from the Dev Tools api, query is working but it doesn't send alert when I index new document, does anyone knows what is going wrong in my configuration.
Is it possible to save a bunch of queries into a single JSON file to import in Kibana Console?
I know there's an option to save a single query[2] and the Kibana console is based on local storage, but I would like to load up the queries based on parameters, such that changing the params(e.g load_from=filename.json) should load up a different set of queries.
For example, when I open http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/dev_tools/console?load_from=filename.json, it should open the Kibana console with ES queries from the file.
EDIT: As a workaround, it's possible to do this with Postman API Client or similar API clients.
Solution:
EDIT 2 on 22/02/2022: Kibana Spaces is the answer. It lets you organize dashboards and other saved objects into meaningful categories[3]. Whenever you load http://localhost:5601/ it lets you choose the space you want to work with. Having multiple browser tabs with different saved spaces should work for most cases.
[2] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/save-load-delete-query.html
[3] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/xpack-spaces.html
Unfortunately, that's not possible yet.
Elastic is (supposedly) working on a new Kibana feature (tabbed console panes #10095) that will provide support for better organizing the code in the Dev Tools application. The issue has been opened for a while and not much seems to be happening, so we'll see.
The release date of that feature is not known yet.
I have managed to process log files using the ELK kit and I can now see my logs on Kibana.
I have scoured the internet and can't seem to find a way to remove all the old logs, viewable in Kibana, from months ago. (Well an explaination that I understand). I just want to clear my Kibana and start a fresh by loading new logs and them being the only ones displayed. Does anyone know how I would do that?
Note: Even if I remove all the Index Patterns (in Management section), the processed logs are still there.
Context: I have been looking at using ELK to analyse testing logs in my work. For that reason, I am using ElasticSearch, Kibana and Logstatsh v5.4, and I am unable to download a newer version due to company restrictions.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Kibana screenshot displaying logs
Update:
I've typed "GET /_cat/indices/*?v&s=index" into the Dev Tools>Console and got a list of indices.
I initially used the "DELETE" function, and it didn't appear to be working. However, after restarting everything, it worked the seond time and I was able to remove all the existing indices which subsiquently removed all logs being displayed in Kibana.
SUCCESS!
Kibana is just the visualization part of the elastic stack, your data is stored in elasticsearch, to get rid of it you need to delete your index.
The 5.4 version is very old and already passed the EOL date, it does not have any UI to delete the index, you will need to use the elasticsearch REST API to delete it.
You can do it from kibana, just click in Dev Tools, first you will need to list your index using the cat indices endpoint.
GET "/_cat/indices?v&s=index&pretty"
After that you will need to use the delete api endpoint to delete your index.
DELETE /name-of-your-index
On the newer versions you can do it using the Index Management UI, you should try to talk with your company to get the new version.
I'm new to elasticsearch and am still trying to set it up. I have installed elasticsearch 5.5.1 using default values I have also installed Kibana 5.5.1 using the default values. I've also installed the ingest-attachment plugin with the latest x-pack plugin. I have elasticsearch running as a service and I have Kibana open in my browser. On the Kibana dashboardI have an error stating that it is unable to fetch mappings. I guess this is because I havn't set up any indices or pipelines yet. This is where I need some steer, all the documentation I've found so far on-line isn't particularly clear. I have a directory with a mixture of document types such as pdf and doc files. My ultimate goal is to be able to search these documents with values that a user will enter via an app. I'm guessing I need to use the Dev Tools/console window in Kibana using the 'PUT' command to create a pipeline next, but I'm unsure of how I should do this so that it points to my directory with the documents. Can anybody provide me an example of this for this version please.
If I understand you correctly, let's first set some basic understanding about elasticsearch:
Elasticsearch in it's simple definition is a "Search engine". so you need to store some data, and then elastic will help you to search using a search criteria, and it will retrieve relevant data back
You need a "Container" to save your data to, and elastic has this thing like any database engine to store your data, but the terms are somehow different. for example a "Database" in sql-like systems is called "Index", and what you know as "table" is called "Type" in elastic.
from my understanding, you will need to create your index (with or without mappings) to have a starting point, and I recommend you to start without mappings just to "start" and get things working, but later on it's highly recommend to work with "mappings" if applicable, because elastic is smart, but it cannot know more about your data than you do
Because Kibana has failed to find a proper index to start with, it has complained and asked you to either provide a syntax for index names, or a specific index name so it can infer the inline mappings and give you the nice features of querying, displaying charts, etc of your data, so once you create your index, you will provide that to the starting page of Kibana, and you will be ready to go.
Let me know if you need something more specific to your needs :)
I'm using Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana to process, store and visualize my logs.
My setup works fine but now I'm looking for a new tool : before ELK I was used to read my logs on Notepad++ or Glogg (I'm on Windows) and now I'm using only kibana discover tab.
Do you think I can find a native application that looks like a read-only Notepad++ that query Elasticsearch and display my logs like before ?
The three features I actually need are :
querying multiple sources logs,
for a specified date range,
and display it quickly to a concise and fast viewer.
I don't think it's very complicated to implement, so that's why i'm wondering if it already exists :)